I'll go along with the crackpot here and say I'd like to see much less use of terror/terrorist as a term.
I think it would be totally appropriate to call it a battle, raid, etc. in line with it being an act of a foreign war. I don't think if the Germans attacked the French camp in WW1 it was called a "terror attack." Of course in that case, that means this whole thing is a war and we should have gone and conquered 15 years ago without concern for some leftist's feefees.
Yeah, I know, the wypipiologist actually has some totally other intent with his words.
And overuse of the word "terrorism" aside, I think the word can apply equally regardless of who is attacked. If the People's Army occupied America and was embedded in civilian areas, I might have no problem suicide bombing them and proudly taking credit for the terrorist attack. Sometimes terrorism is the appropriate tactic. However in this case there's no reason for the attack. The point of terrorism is to pressure the other side to do something. We already retreated.
So do I agree it wasn't a "terror attack". It was a stupid, evil massacre that might cause US soldiers to stay longer.
Even the Taliban are looking at the tweet like "whoa dude that's a bit extreme."
I'll go along with the crackpot here and say I'd like to see much less use of terror/terrorist as a term.
I think it would be totally appropriate to call it a battle, raid, etc. in line with it being an act of a foreign war. I don't think if the Germans attacked the French camp in WW1 it was called a "terror attack." Of course in that case, that means this whole thing is a war and we should have gone and conquered 15 years ago without concern for some leftist's feefees.
Yeah, I know, the wypipiologist actually has some totally other intent with his words.
Our soldiers are in the process of leaving.
And exclusively rescuing people.
And overuse of the word "terrorism" aside, I think the word can apply equally regardless of who is attacked. If the People's Army occupied America and was embedded in civilian areas, I might have no problem suicide bombing them and proudly taking credit for the terrorist attack. Sometimes terrorism is the appropriate tactic. However in this case there's no reason for the attack. The point of terrorism is to pressure the other side to do something. We already retreated.
So do I agree it wasn't a "terror attack". It was a stupid, evil massacre that might cause US soldiers to stay longer.
Even the Taliban are looking at the tweet like "whoa dude that's a bit extreme."
And, because Twitter in cancer, when somebody brings up the Afghan body count, one of the repliesL "Yeah, but the US killed more".
I'm not sure there's any atrocity these people wouldn't forgive - as long as some white people are hurt during it.