Definition of terrorism

[Giff]

So you believe that terrorism can be justified, depending on the circumstances?

Interesting. Can morality be taken into account when a country is at war.

As Japan started the conflict, you could justify yourself with this argumant. On the other hand, you could argue that killing civilians is immoral. How would you determine which is the the correct or morally correct position.

If you were Japanese, you would agrgue one way.

If you were American, you would argue the other.

However, back to the point.

For reasons already given I don't accept it applies to the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

Therefore, this statement can only be relative to yourself, and whoever else agrees with it, depending on your point of view.

I think killing civlians can never be justified. espcially when you look at the Hrisoshima bombings. Also USa where allready helping China in their war against Japans and Japan saw the new base of Peral Harbor as an aggression towards them, that's why the attacked it. Since it was a threat. They didn't attack for no apperent reason.

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The case of large scale bombing of cities at war time has been ongoing since the advent of modern military aviation, personally I do not find these acts to be of a terrorist nature; the aim is to eliminate enemy hot-spots and bases which in theatres like Iraq are interwoven within the fabric of city it is also important to remember that paramilitary forces usually live within the main population and cannot be distinguished as easily as regular army forces so historically these kinds of operation lead to higher civillian casulaties.

Sam

Even though I get your point do I still say civilian casulties can never be jusitfied as I was writing in the previous post. As they say war never have winners, only losers.

Also to seeing children that either have been killed or seriously injured by bombings have affected me very much. After seeing such things have made me strongly against war and I don't care who attack. It's still wrong attacking civilians. I find a war where they bomb cities to be a sort of terrorism. Also in some cases do they not even care if there is any miltary targets or sometimes do they just take chance that their might be rebell leader in the area.