Letters to the Editor
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One day the media will wake up to a basic fact
Terrorism is a tactic, not a philosophy. Even if you throw meaningless adjectives like "Islamofascism" on top of it. What proves that, of course, is that a Sunni group will use the same tactics against a Shiite group it might use on American troops.
And because of that, "terrorism" won't go away so long as anyone has a grievance against anyone else that they think they can take care of by resort to terrorism. That goes for people who believe as Timothy McVeigh does as much as Osama bin Laden.
Our country has been beset by forms of terrorism for a long time. The tactics of our own revolutionary patriots, Confederate raiders, Indian warriors, labor agitators and Puerto Rican nationalists are revered in some circles and were all considered terrorists in their days.
That doesn't mean one gives up fighting those who would use terrorism, but it does mean that thinking you can simply make it go away by "winning" in Iraq, whatever the hell that means.
But so long as the media will print the lies of Bush, Fleischer and their coterie that "victory" over "terrorism" is both a goal and a possibility, people will follow, and soldiers will die unnecessarily.