What is terrorism?
The absence of a shared international definition of one of the most toxic words in the political lexicon handicaps efforts to understand the reality behind the term, says Charles Townshend. Full Story »
Posted by jessica reedReview
The article makes some interesting interogatory questions, some storn answers, and equivocates on them. It is dangerous to liberty to define terrorism loosely, condemn it, then attack it using terrorism. The fact that war is terrorism is not readily accepted by nation states. (Nor perhaps in the near future, by corporate security private armys for corporations that are larger than nation states.)
