Haha, er du i stand til å skrive et innlegg uten å henvise til Noam Chomsky?
Ja, les innlegget rett over der jeg henviser til en US army manual. Når det er sagt liker jeg å henvise til Chomsky når temaet dreier seg om moderne konflikter. Han er god til å komme med klare og enkle poenger, samtidig som han har en god oversikt over det han snakker om. Jeg synes ikke det er noe galt i å henvise til eksperter innen det feltet som faktisk diskuteres.
Igjen, angrep som med bevissthet er direkte rettet mot sivile er terror. Kom gjerne md et eksempel der det amerikanske forsvaret i Afghanistan eller Irak har stått bak et slikt angrep.
Vel det blir din definisjon på terror. Det finnes mange definisjoner, f.eks. :
"the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. This is done through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear."
- US army manual
2. Reiterates that
criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other nature that may be invoked to justify them".
- FN 1999
"…activities that involve violent… or life-threatening acts… that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and… appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping…."
- Amerikansk strafferett
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations: "...the unlawful use of force and violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives" (28 C.F.R. Section 0.85).
Når det er sagt finnes det mange handlinger USA har gjort som passer inn under din definisjon av terrorisme også, ref. f.eks. Fleksnes innlegg. Eller f.eks. en lignende sak der Clinton bomber en viktig medisinfabrikk i Sudan.....
Eller dette:
On November 7th, U.S heavy bombers obliterated the village of Khan Aqa in Kapisa province, located 34 miles north of Kabul, as part of the new carpet-bombing phase of the air war in the plains north of Kabul. The bombing was captured in a photo by the A.P.:
Eller dette:
When U.S. warplanes strafed [with AC-130 gunships] the farming village of Chowkar-Karez, 25 miles north of Kandahar on October 22-23rd,killing at least 93 civilians, a Pentagon official said, "the people there are dead because we wanted them dead." The reason? They sympathized with the Taliban1. When asked about the Chowkar incident, Rumsfeld replied, "I cannot deal with that particular village."2