Can you call an F16 pilot that kills children knowingly a terrorist ?
2006-08-11 11:29:02 · 13 answers · asked by Smily O 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is the logic employed by Israel. It works like this:
1) Get $43 billion per year in military and other aid from the US government.
2) Spend most of your GNP refining weapons and synthesizing more out of the weapons you got donated.
3) Find creative ways to bomb your neighbors to pieces at a rate 10-100 times anything they do to you.
4) Include napalm-like substances, low-level nuclear waste, super suffering shrapnel, etc. to increase the horror.
5) Unleash torment on homes, bridges, airports, businesses, anywhere except where the purported 'enemy' hangs out.
Then complain to high heaven and anyone who will listen about the 'barbaric' practices of those who receive this treatment and try to fight back with crude, improvised weaponry.
I think the US needs to revamp its foreign aid practices, for real.
2006-08-11 11:36:51 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The F16 pilot that kills children knowingly during a war is a Husband, Father, Brother, Son, or Uncle nothing more nothing less. Just like the men and women and children on the aircraft's that flew into the ground and Pentagon and Trade towers. All Victims of a war not the creator or the cause just the victim. Losing sight of that is terror.
2006-08-11 11:57:29 · answer #2 · answered by trishalea 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Makes it acceptable to whom, to me or a mercenary plutocratic predatory few that profit from the sale and manufacture of the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex? If you asking your question to a mercenary plutocratic predatory few that profit from the sale and manufacture of the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex then yes killing innocent civilians using the latest technology does make it acceptable. If you are asking your question to me then I do not accept that this is an activity that should continue happening and I offer you an opportunity to join me in acting now to stop war and end racism.
Can I call an F16 pilot that kills children knowingly a terrorist?
Terrorism is unlawful use or threatened use of force and or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Unlawful is a key word in the above definition of terrorism.
Your question is about my opinion on a question of law. I am not a lawyer. As a lay person I can answer: If it is a lawful use of force or violence then how could it be terrorism? If it is an unlawful use of force or violence then how could it not be terrorism?
2006-08-11 11:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by H.I. of the H.I. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No especially if the innocents were put there as human sheilds by hezbollah. I say the whole world should have a new rule. "This is war. Get out of the way. If not it's your fault." That would stop all this whining about "innocent civilians." Most of the innocent civilians are really spies for hezbollah.
Let the battle be waged.
2006-08-11 11:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by stick man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called collateral damage and even though it's not 'right' it is a part of war that can't be helped. Why do you think most terrorists hide among large crowds of innocent people? Because they know that those people would only be taken down as a last resort, which proves they don't care about their own people, let alone anyone else.
2006-08-11 11:35:16 · answer #5 · answered by The Nana of Nana's 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really have to take into account the circumstances. If a person is trying to kill civilians, that is unacceptable. However, if a person has other targets but knows that children will be in the way, the line blurs. In the case of the Israeli conflict, I have to give them a boost above terrorism because they have had to defend themselves time and again against their neighbors who try to destroy them. The force may be somewhat excessive, but it is also, if not necessary, justified.
2006-08-11 11:34:08 · answer #6 · answered by Phil 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pilot isn't a murderer but the governments who call the shots are guilty of killing...it's wrong.
2006-08-11 11:32:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure...you can call him a terrorist...you can call any one who is killing others....either knowingly or not...
but than ..people who make all these weapons are terrorist as well..cause they know there...inventions are meant to kill....
2006-08-11 11:33:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seriously doubt any pliot goes out with the intention of wiping out kids
2006-08-11 11:33:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
IF BY LATEST TECHNOLOGY DO YOU MEAN THE NEWEST BACK LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES......THEN NO
2006-08-11 11:33:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋