30-Nov-10 News -- Europe's financial crisis worsens

[John]

30-Nov-10 News -- Europe's financial crisis worsens after Ireland bailout

Iran's nuclear facilities under terrorist attack

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Contents:
"Europe's financial crisis worsens after Ireland bailout"
"South Korea's president apologizes for North Korea's attack"
"Iran's nuclear facilities under terrorist attack"
"Additional links"
Switzerland votes to expel foreign criminals
Climate change conference opens in Cancun, Mexico

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Terrorism is the application of terror to achieve a different, often political, purpose. Stuxnet is not terrorism. Assuming Stuxnet's purpose is to hobble Iran's nuclear program, Stuxnet is an application of force to achieve a direct purpose. Similarly, the assassination of scientists related to Iran's nuclear program isn't an attempt to scare the Iranian population. It is an attempt to set back Iran's nuclear aspirations by removing important components, the scientists.

The misuse of the word "terrorism" in our culture dilutes the word to meaninglessness.

[John]

> Terrorism is the application of terror to achieve a different,
> often political, purpose. Stuxnet is not terrorism. Assuming
> Stuxnet's purpose is to hobble Iran's nuclear program, Stuxnet is
> an application of force to achieve a direct purpose. Similarly,
> the assassination of scientists related to Iran's nuclear program
> isn't an attempt to scare the Iranian population. It is an attempt
> to set back Iran's nuclear aspirations by removing important
> components, the scientists.

> The misuse of the word "terrorism" in our culture dilutes the word
> to meaninglessness.

Interesting argument.

Some would say that a computer virus could never be called a
"terrorist act" by its very nature, although I suppose that if Stuxnet
were attacking American or European nuclear plants, a lot of people
would be calling it terrorism.

As for the murder of the two scientists, it's hard to call that
anything BUT a terrorist act, especially if the attack was perpetrated
by al-Qaeda-linked Jundallah, who wouldn't hesitate to do the same to
American or European scientists.

Perhaps this is a good time to recall the saying, "One man's terrorist
is another man's freedom fighter."

John