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If we're encouraging terrorism, wouldn't that make us terrorists ourselves?
Well, no. The shoes you are wearing are probably produced in a developing country, where workers are underpaid and poverty is rife. By buying those shoes, you encourage an economic model that ultimately foments despair, extremism and violence. That may make you a collaborator, but it doesn't make you a terrorist.
The question of the rules of war is an interesting one, which brings us back to state terrorism. If Kofi Anan says that the US violated internation law by invading Iraq, we can say that that war, and the subsequnet actions, are *illegal*. However, does that mean that they are terrorist actions, or simply illegal actions? Are the illegal actions of a state necessarily terrorising? |
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