CABAL
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phoenix80 said:Wrong!
Some times weak states such as iran or syria resort to terrorism to further their own agenda
But you fail to tell us how you have come to the conclusion that all countries can become terror states?
I did not assert that states can become terror states. I emphasized that terrorist organizations can become states. For example the Cuban Revolution and the Viet Cong Guerillas.
Or it can become the other way around, states becoming terrorist factions. Rival factions fight one another for control over a state, sometimes referring to terror tactics to further its own political agenda. See whats happening to the West Bank now? You see a rise of hostile confrontation between the Fatah and the Hamas. Even perhaps worst, Iraq is experiencing a plague of warring factions.
If you decentralize Iran now, it becomes the best time for Terrorists to regroup and attack.
PS: Please note that I do not consider Terrorists as freedom fighters. In my definition, Terrorists are dissenters who are able to organize and to carry out violence. Thats no different to a warring state.
I think I posted this before, so I'm posting this again.
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rohloff/www/war%20making%20and%20state%20making.pdf -
A long article, but interesting of how Charles Tilly explains the aspects of State Making and War Making.
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