To call some acts "terror" is to pretend that (say) being shot at on a conventional battlefield is NOT terrifying. Huh?
@polyparadigm Actually the word "civilian" is almost as bad as "terrorist." There are no innocent civilians in a democracy. All condone war.
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@vgr But you're saying the Amish are/were complicit for all US military action? They aren't even hip to 1776, calling us "English". -
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@vgr It's used badly in media, but others use it to mean "the yet-to-be-drafted/trained", or (less meaning) "currently-unmobilized" -
@polyparadigm I think the Charlie Hebdo people correctly understood themselves to be combatants.
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