this is one of the dumbest threads I’ve ever read. Naturally, i had to reply.
Terrorism goes back a little further than 1984, or even than the 1700s as Joe puts. The reason that it is believed that the bubonic plague broke out in Europe is because while invading tribes were besieging Constantinople, they noticed that the men were getting very sick and dying. Running out of things to put in the catapult to throw over the city walls, they started loading in dead soldiers. This is suspected to be the first biological warfare attack. Once the dead bodies were inside the city, disease spread rampant. From here, as one of the busiest hub cities of the time, crusading knights returned home to avoid the disease. They brought with them rats, rats carried the disease, yadayadayada. this was all the 1330s. You could keep going back further and further sighting examples, but basically, terrorism is any (supposed) unjust attack by another nation or group of individuals. That means that any pre-emptive strike could be defined terrorism. Any guerilla warfare is defined as terrorism by the residing power. Examples; the Dutch retaliation to English conquering of there south Africa lands after gold was discovered, the crusades, the French underground against occupation during ww2, Spain and central America, the Spanish inquisition, the current \'terror cells\' in the US, the \'rouge cells\' that are attacking the American soldiers in the middle east. Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar considered Castro and Che terrorists, ect, ect. as long as there is a governing power somewhere, someone else will want to besiege the land, and if they are a considered a formable opponent, it will be called a war. If they aren’t, it will be called terrorism.
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