re: #22 John Hughes
If the Taliban are terrorists then why weren’t the American revolutionaries?
“Terrorist” doesn’t mean “bad person”, it’s a politico/military strategy. An evil one, but there’s a better case for describing the US as terrorists than the Taliban in recent years. (*)
Oh god am I going to get piled on for this one.
(* Where by recent I mean in the last 20 years — sorry any young people around, that’s how is old farts count)
in general, terrorism involves specifically targeting civilians/innocents/noncombatants
the intent of which is to create ‘terror’
through which the goal is to effect political change