Terrorism tends to spill over into "low-level warfare". I read a lot about revolutionary strategy and tactics, and at one point in my army career I considered becoming a counter-insurgency officer.
But ultimately I'm more comfortable with education. I consider my work at Wikipedia a long-term investment in home-schooling materials...
Sabotoging powerlines sounds like something Marxist guerrillas would do. The object is to make life under the current regime so miserable that people are desperate for a regime change. Then your group offers yourselves as the perfect alternative. Sometimes this works, sometimes not.
Anyway, I hope we can move this discussion to some talk pages soon. There's lots of great material here, hint, hint.
Ed
On 01/16/04 at 04:02 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com said:
Anyway, I hope we can move this discussion to some talk pages soon. There's lots of great material here, hint, hint.
Yes, but more important at this point would to come to some concensus here on the mailing list regarding use of the term "terrorist" to serve as guideline for the varous articles. Otherwise, the issue will be hashed out over and over again on the respective Talk pages -- as is currently happening.
V.
Viajero wrote:
On 01/16/04 at 04:02 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com said:
Anyway, I hope we can move this discussion to some talk pages soon. There's lots of great material here, hint, hint.
Yes, but more important at this point would to come to some concensus here on the mailing list regarding use of the term "terrorist" to serve as guideline for the varous articles. Otherwise, the issue will be hashed out over and over again on the respective Talk pages -- as is currently happening.
Exactly. This debate is not really about the nature of terrorism or who is a terrorist, but about whether the use of the word is appropriate in the title of an article.
The simple fact that such a use has generated such a lively debate involving respected Wikipedians on both sides is reason enough to omit it from the title.
Ec
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
Sabotoging powerlines sounds like something Marxist guerrillas would do. The object is to make life under the current regime so miserable that people are desperate for a regime change.
It's the word Marxist that doesn't make sense in this statement. Not because Marxist guerillas don't use it, but because it suggests that somehow they are the *only* ones that do.
Ec