I suppose that ”terrorism” is linked with purposely killing civilians for political-ethnic gain. The definition is getting difficult to understand because the Americans (in particular) are stretching the use of the word to include quasi-military action against U.S. troops in Iraq, and elsewhere. In this way the Americans can gain support against what is actually nationals defending their country against a foreign invader. The U.S. likes to call the bombing of American troops in Iraq as “terrorism”. I do not agree with the Americans but that’s not the issue.
How American/European “terrorism” is developing is not very hard to understand and is probably rooted in the fall of the Soviet Union. The balance of East-West gave the population a choice. We had fundamental, political alternatives; if you didn’t like Capitalism you could choose Communism …. and visa versa. It gave us the illusion of “right and wrong”, “good and evil”. Most of us understood that there were no “perfect” solutions and we accepted/tolerated the imperfections of each individual political character. But now that the U.S. is the ONLY power in the world we no longer have that choice in which to align ourselves. Furthermore, the U.S. is now unrestrained and no longer willing to make any humanitarian concessions with which to make their increasingly Fascist colours palatable. These days they simply tell the world and the U.N. to fukc themselves, and do whatever they please.
American citizens themselves are unaware of the treachery the U.S. distributes to the outside world because of a strong national media censorship and a well-developed Josef Göbbles style propaganda that is tailored to a nurtured, American mentality. The rest of us, therefore, find no sympathetic ear amongst the American population; the sort we experienced during the Vietnam War.
Islamic (Arabs mostly) movements that denounce the U.S. are gaining sympathy around the world, not because of any Islamic conviction, but because these people are fighting a war against the Americans; one that the rest of us may eventually need to join in the near future. How many Vietnams, Cambodias, Irans, Iraqs, Nicaraguas, Cubas, Panamas, Guatamalas, Grenadas, etc. must the word endure before we begin to fear that we might be “next”?
If the Americans continue to ignore world opinion – and there is no longer any political alternative – then what can the outcome be? Those non-Islamic individuals who use terrorism to make a statement are acting either out of frustration or perhaps a sense of grandiose “heroism” which just so happens to be a product of American, politically manipulated, Hollywood propaganda!