Justify? Are you saying it not justified? W
Seriously, Terrorists are almost uniformly bad for everyone. They are pretty much single-handedly the reason for the Rise of Stalin, instead of a Democracy there (third to last Tsar was assassinated immediately after signing a new constitution, and about to found the Duma. Guess what his son did. If you guessed revoked it and started a reign of terror, You were right.) Justify, Justify. It's one thing to question the means, but the concept? You're questioning whether we
should fight terrorists?
I mean seriously. You're playing with peoples lives here. Ask anyone on the streets of the middle east, where bombs go off all the time, whether they think we should be listening to them. It's not just murder, it's terror. What they instill in human beings is a atmosphere of fear, one where they no longer know whether they'll get home that night. That's Psychological warfare on Civilians, and it is unacceptable. Just because people are forced into something bad by circumstance, or ideology, or WHATEVER, doesn't make what they are doing something we shouldn't stop.
The last couple pages are seriously disturbing to me. So many of the arguments used to justify the fight against terrorism are the exact same arguments I would imagine myself using to justify my actions if I were a terrorist, and I very nearly BSOD trying to understand how these matters of perspective can be so easily handwaved. I've been immersed in this same argument regularly for at least 10 years, and I still find it mind-boggling.
That's just human conflict and warfare in general. Sure the justifications are going to sound similar because people end up fighting for similar reasons, in general, for the benefit of whatever group they identify with.
So you have to look at the character of the entities fighting, their ideology or belief system or what have you if you want to pick a side in a war.
Warfare/ terrorism/ politics are just a means to an end. So look at the end state they are trying achieve. I can't really identify with any terrorist organization I can think of because most seem to bluntly state in so many words that they are working for a global tyranny of some sort because some book says so.
Well, there's many. Environmental terrorist, Anarchists (they only Identify with the Anarchist's Cookbook!), the US militias, various Independence organization resorting to violence, One for every religion, Black/white/Whatever Supremacists, Socialists, Fascists, etc.
Odds are there are some out there that endorse what you believe. But you don't plan on murdering Civilians now do you?