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AFTER answering the first three polls, answer this one. Here they are: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=43243 https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=43244 https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=43245 Now, is it terrorism if a state-controlled military force...

Is it terrorism if a group attacks civilians in the course of trying to achieve some political, idealogical, or religious objective?

Was it terrorism when the Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and other such cities were bombed?

Was it terrorism when the planes flew into the World Trade Centre?

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This is Najaf, which, according to studentx, was abandoned by the civilian population and now houses only foreign terrorists: http://www.keralaonline.com/wallimage/spir_mus_wp/najaf.jpg http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/31/1062194761688.html...

I know that the excuse was that the US troops were aiming for the military vehicle in the middle of a bunch of civilians. Given the interviews I've seen and read with US troops regarding their activities in Iraq, I have no reason to believe they were not deliberately aiming at the civilians...

I've never said any terrorist attack was acceptable. I have said that it is the position others have adopted. Now, would you care to address the topic?

Nice way to dodge responsbility for terrorism, that. If a state does it, we don't call it terrorism. Simple. No need for rationalisation or anything. Pathetic.

Not at all. The reality is, those questions only come into play after people have done all sorts of stupid and immoral things. Things need not get that far. To say it is simply unrealistic to hope we can avoid wars is just another attempt at dodging responsibility.

Like fudge. I've barely started on the Poe stuff.

Yes, I know quipus. It's very interesting stuff, and still used in a limited form today.

I'd just like some opinions please. We generally moved from barter to token economies employing physical tokens - coins and such. However, it's entirely possible that we may do away with physical tokens entirely, and rely completely of units of data as tokens in a global computer network...

They deserve to be safe in their homes without attackers bringing the war in there. Hard to "stay out of the way" when soldiers come into your town, conduct searches in your family's home, park tanks out the front, drop bombs on your town's infrastructure, and in general turn your home into a...

I know we aren't all opposed to it. We have a few users here who, in their desperation to prop up their patriotic faith, are actually suggesting the civilians deserved it. Some of the dead are children. Do you wish to suggest they were Evil Terror Kids or something?