Re: "Attack on America" - a Personal Response (fwd)

Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com> wrote:

It's a question of scale, not participants. A nation can engage in terrorism (eg Syria, Libya).

Squirrel definition! Don't you know that squirrels are poor form and generally lead to point reduction? Obviously you were never a debate judge. :-P The relevant definitions here are clearly not those of Webster, but those of the appropriate US laws. By said laws, it is most certainly _not_ a question of scale. Governments can't be terrorists, period. The letter of the law. -- Riad Wahby rsw@mit.edu MIT VI-2/A 2002