I really mean it:What is the difference between terror and war against terror?

Question

does terror mean:targeting civilians?there were tens of southands of Iraqi civilians were killed by Americans and more than 4,000 palestinians were killed by Israelis...is it who began it? only America said that Iraq had mass distruction weapons which was never proved,and then every body knew that these information was wrong even CIA has confessed that..
Who can tell me the objective definition of terror? and why it hasn't a definition yet?
on what basis we judge an action as terror or war against terror regardless the religion of militants or fighter?

dear sarge927:your difinition can be applied on what America does in Iraq
further more..in most cases nobody announces his real purposes and intention
I'm afraid that your definition is not accurate..even the lonley exception you mentiond was about attacking american soldiers..frightening the enimy is essential in any war

Answer 1

"War on Terror" or "Liberation efforts" is the way the US refers to its own Terror attacks in other countries.

Answer 2

OK, how about this? Terrorism is a type of violence that is designed to scare people. We'll use Al-Qaeda as an example: Their religious views really have nothing to do with the objective definition of terrorism -- it's WHAT THEY DID and WHY THEY DID IT that matters. What did they do? They flew commercial airplanes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Why did they do it? To scare the American people -- to show folks here that even living on American soil doesn't mean we're safe. And it worked -- now the Department of Homeland Security is posturing against almost every conceivable type of attack (nuclear, biological, chemical, cyber, conventional/incendiary, etc.) because the U.S. is now afraid of what Al-Qaeda will do next.

As for the war against terrorism, it is specifically a war against those who conducted operations or waged war using terrorist tactics. Al-Qaeda planned and executed a terrorist attack against the U.S., so we fought back against them.

One thing that was already mentioned: Terrorist activities involve innocent civilians 99.9% of the time (the only exception I can think of was the truck-bombing of the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut in the early '80s). Big difference from military men and women who are easily identified by their uniforms conducting military operations.

Answer 3

Terror is a feeling that you have before something bad happens to you. It is not limited to tactics on the Battle field or acts of terrorism. The phase "War on Terror" was cleverly devised so that we would be at war forever. It is no different then the "War on Drugs" You can still get drugs if you want right. Forget labels because at this point in time they are just made to confuse us and make American people feel dependent on our government. Terror is what this our government uses as its tactics so we will vote against our best interest. You can watch on the news right now and see how many terror plots they are uncovering. Where was all this good detective work last year. November is right around the corner and expect to see more terror alerts and threats as the months pass.

Answer 4

terrorism is using tactics to scare people? what about operation shock and awe that targeted more civilian targets than military? Al-Quaida was not in Iraq until after we occupied it. The supposed terrorists from 9/11? they were all kicked out of flight school because they could even take a plane off in a simulator...none of them! Also, only the best military pilots with anti-G suits could pull a 5G turn like that with that degree of accuracy. Those poor losers from SAUDI ARABIA (not iraq, not afghanistan) could not possibly have done it.

What the US has done in the middle east is TERRORISM! Before the war, we were bombing civilian targets for 3 months trying to goad SH into retaliating so we'd have an excuse to attack him. he didn't. we attacked anyway giving different excused over the last few years, but no true ones. The leaders of our country wanted to occupy Iraq back in 1997! Project for a New American Century's website (written in 97) talks about how they wanted to conquor and occupy Iraq, and that it would take a Pearl Harbor-like incident to get the American People to agree to it. You people are such sheep!!! completely unable to look at evidence or think for yourselves...which given the comments of the rightys on this site is probably a good thing, given their inability to think straight in general.

By the way...Average IQ in Texas: 84 IQ considered to be mentally disabled: 80....does this tell anyone anything?

Intelligent people tend to be leftys. Morons tend to be rightys

Answer 5

Well said. You should read Orwell's 1984.

There is no difference between terror and war except perhaps terror purposely targets civilians. In war, it's an accident.

Regardless, if your loved ones are killed, I don't think the slight difference in definitions matters much.

Answer 6

It's all relative to which side you're on. I (being an American) am perfectly fine with the killing of Iraqis , North Koreans, Iranians or anybody else who doesn't agree with American policies. If I was an Iraqi, North Korean, Iranian then I would be okay will killing Americans in the pursuit of my countries progression. It's all in how you look at. I would define a terrorist as anybody who kills your people.

Answer 7

In one word, the difference is RULES.

Wars are fought under the rules of warfare.

Terrorists are animals who enjoy killing, raping and torturing men, women and children ( some even like to kill family pets ). Terrorists follow no rules.

A soldier can be held accountable for some inhumane acts against the enemy. He can be found guilty and punished up to and including death.

A dog of a terrorist, is a cowardly, inhumane rotten dung-bug that should be shot on sight by everyone. For most of them it is a waste of oxygen to allow them to breathe.

Answer 8

Iraq failed to abide by UN resolutions and had shot missiles at our aircraft.

Terror is deliberately attacking civilian targets

Answer 9

There is none. And there is a law of nature: the destroyer will be destroyed. As it says in the Bible: "he who lives by the sword will die by the sword".

Answer 10

well!!!You ve already define it most especially the AMERICAN way...any trait{objective} to America is define that way,but most definitely this is war against ISLAM!u like it or leave it....