The whole idea of comparing a tactic to an objective still seems a bit to me like... apples and oranges doesn't quite cover it. Apples and baseballs, perhaps.
I find it interesting, though in no way surprising, that states often adopt definitions of terrorism that exclude state terrorism. The eye of the beholder is a potent device.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary”
H.L. Mencken
I hope I made it clear that this is exactly the stance I am trying to take...Originally Posted by Dayuhan
I am suggesting the national liberation is an objective, and both guerilla warfare and terrorism are methods of achieving that objective.
- Mac
... and are most often branches of the same tree.
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