U.S. reviews 9/11 documents for possible release

[Deesse23]

There are a few posts that quoted the OP in full, you can find it there. I thought seriously about deleting those as well, but opted not to do so, for the very reason you mention - people may wish to refer back to Winter’s original statement when replying.

Essentially, he was extolling the virtues and actions of Al Qaeda.

Boru

Smart; editing your post after days so I never catch you doing it   
Essentially you deleted the post which as exposing what America is >< btw you're helping my cause more more by your actions; so grow up please.

Let's repeat it:

Why is 9/11 terrorism, while the nukes against Japan arent ?

I am asking, and i am very, very serious: Are you really that ignorant? Do you want to learn something for a change? Then please continue to read. If not, please go just right to my last sentence.

Al Quaeda was an organisation. Japan was a state. States can be at war with each other, organisations can not (according to international law, customs and treaties). Thats the crucial difference. Thats why the US was never at war with Al Quaeda, but with Japan.*

Accordingly, when an organisation, like Al Quaeda, tries to "achieve political goals by causing terror", its terrorism, its a terrorist organisation, by definition. What the US did was part of a military strategy to win a war. While the nukes can be viewed as terrorism in a colloquial sense, they were a military action with a military goal, to make Japan surrender.

Of course, according to international "law" (The Hague convention) attacks on any non-military installations were condemned, so about anything everyone ever did since WWI could be considered terror(ism) and in violation to customs.

Now one may argue according to Clausewitz (and i am sure you will try to do, without having second thoughts about the ultimate consequence of this proposition) that "war is the continuation of politics with alternative means". In this case any military action in any war ever was terrorism and the nukes were .....while having had cost more lifes in a single action than ever before..." just another terrorist attack on someones civilian population. Still, the issue remains open, that Al Quaeda was an organisation, not a state, and we dont grant organisations the same rights (on the international stage) as states. Thats the point at which your equivocation will always fail.

*actually Japan declared war on the US and attacked first, but thats rather irrelevant for the core of the issue

...and now, without ever reading what i just wrote, without absorbing, processing and understanding new information, please go on with your rants about "the evil west", how suppressed poor muslims are and how you have the one and only correct version of Islam.