Editorial: Terrorism is Justified

written a few months ago. Obviously author is not serious about opening statement but uses it to prove a point.



The Terrorist Papers: A Mountaineer Commentary
Thursday - August 31, 2006
by Michael Cooper Jr.
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I'm about to do something extremely controversial. It won't make me any new friends. It won't be pleasant to your eyes. But in this day and age, it is necessary, very necessary, to make this upcoming point. So, let's not waste time and just jump right into it:

Terrorism is Justified...

There I said it. Someone had to. Not universally, but in certain cases and circumstances. Why? Because it's a TACTIC, and nothing more.

The United States of America has the strongest armed forces in the world, followed by several of our allies like Great Britain and Israel, and then China (only because they have billions of men, and children, to put in the field). No country in the world could wage a legitimate war against us and win. North Korea and Vietnam might have been campaigns worth forgetting -- though I, and hopefully you, will always remember our soldiers sacrifice in both of those wars -- but I don't seem to recall North Vietnam landing troops on the shores of Delaware in '69. Honestly, no one can touch us. The old Soviet Union didn't even have to balls, now no one will even dare. You can't beat our army, certainly not our Navy or Air Force, and definitely not our stock piles of nuclear weapons.

On a side note, does anyone else find it odd that the United States, the only nation to actually drop the "bomb" on a foe, is deadest against letting our enemies build them? Seems like we'd be the last land on Earth with the right to tell Iran or North Korea they can't have nukes. Now, if Japan tells you that you shouldn't, I'd understand.

Back to the issue at hand. We can't be invaded, or attacked by a country, unless that country wants to risk complete annihilation at the will of a person as bonkers as Donny Rumsfeld. I find it funny we even call him the Secretary of Defense, which is the job of Homeland Security. Might as well call him Secretary of War, it'd make it clearer. But, if you pay attention to history -- I'm a big student of history -- you must admit the U.S. has been wrong quite a bit. Or dare I say even played the role of the villain. Remember slavery, or how we treated Native Americans? It took decades to give rights to minorities and the "vote" to women. So yeah, we're not always right. With that being said, how are folks around the world, who disagree with us, going to get through to us? It isn't going to happen by trying to talk sense into Yosemite Sam up at the UN. If the Kyoto Protocol is any evidence the international community must see this current administration as a bunch of "doody heads." However, we just concluded that countries would be insane to attack the U.S. and now they can't even peacefully work things out. That must mean other TACTICS have to be taken.

Now, before you get the wrong idea about what I'm saying, realize I'm not justifying what happened at the World Trade Center or over the skies of Pennsylvania. I'll provide the reasoning for that later. The Pentagon is a whole different story. While my heart goes out to the families of those lost in that strike, it was a military building and I can't, as a reasonable person, condemn an attack against our military -- you take the risk of getting attacked the second you join up -- considering what we do around the globe. I would be a hypocrite. With that though, is war inexcusable to use a civilian aircraft to attack our military? Innocent lives shouldn't be wasted in an effort to fight our country. But back to the point about the nukes, how can we complain about losing civilian lives?

We are after all the culprits of Hiroshima -- the anniversary of that horrible day was only a couple weeks ago -- and we stood behind Israel as they blindly killed UN and Red Cross Workers in Lebanon.


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when he kills a little girl by flying a $40 million dollar machine from hundreds of miles away to drop a bomb on her house. He's a hero.

The guy who blows up a house on the other side with a propane container and a shot glass measure of plastic explosive we call a terrorist.

I don't think it really matters to the families of the little girls in question. To claim that terrorism is somehow more horrible than napalming a village is pure sophistry. It's a lie.

Dead is dead.