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10 Nov 2009 02:46 pm
The T-Word
Greenwald questions whether the Ft. Hood shooting was terrorism:
[If] one accepts that broadened definition of "terrorism" -- that it
includes violence that targets not only civilians but also combatants
who are unarmed or not engaged in combat at the time of the attack --
it seems impossible to exclude from that term many of the acts in which
the U.S. and our allies routinely engage. Indeed, a large part of our
"war" strategy is to kill people we deem to be "terrorists" or
"combatants" without regard to whether they're armed or engaged in
hostilities at the moment we kill them. Isn't that exactly what we do
when we use drone attacks in Pakistan?
In a rare moment of agreement, Jonah Goldberg concurs.
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