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How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Howard Zinn
War, Terrorism, Terrorist

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.

Howard Zinn
Violence, Scared, Terrorism
Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. December 11, 2009.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

Howard Zinn
War, Self, Terrorism
Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.153, City Lights Publishers

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

Howard Zinn
War, Terrorism, Hundred
"The Old Way of Thinking". The Progressive, November 2001.

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

Howard Zinn
Want, Terrorism, Ends

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

Howard Zinn
Country, Terrorism, Threat
Source: www.pbs.org

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