| i mentioned this in another post. EVERY country that exists today, particulary first world countries, have used terrorism as a weapon of the government at one point in their history. you can't deny it. so if you want to throw cowardly around then we are too. but being a coward is an opinionated term, we're cowards to our enemy because we'd rather drop a bomb from 30k ft then walk up to them with a bomb strapped to our chest.
the colonists were called cowards by the brits during the revolutionary war because we used ambushes instead of attacking them head on, like a conventional army.
all these people are doing are using the only tactics they have available to combat a more superior force. heck, during the afgahn war the CIA taught them these tactics to use on the Soviets. since they beat the soviets, they know it's a proven strategy. so now they're using it on the US.
the only reason they target civilians is because it gets our attention, and all they want is our attention. no offense to anyone who has lost a pal in iraq or afgahnistan, but a dead soldier isn't worth nearly as much as a dead child or dead civy when we talk about terrorism. as a soldier it's almost expected that you'd die in combat, especially if you're on the line. and let's not forget, the high they raise the stakes the more the public disproves of the war and the more pressure the gov gets to pull out of it. it's already divided the US.
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