Terror: No One Understands it and Bush Can't Pronounce it

Ok, I warned you I might irritate you. Let's talk about "Terrrrrrrr" (Bush-speak). "Terrorism" - Perhaps the most miss-used miss-interpreted term since "amicable divorce". Stop kidding yourself - a "Terrorist" is a very specific person. They are an adversary facing a far superior enemy that cannot face said enemy on the battlefield so they choose the coward's path and seek to cause the most impact they can by striking not the strength of an enemy militarily but it's weakness - it's civilians. If they cannot cause military loss they can at best cause fear. It is the tragic real world equivalent of a high school football team that loses the big game but slashes the tires of the other team's bus before they leave. Now I admit that this isn't a simple 6 word definition that is black and white but let's cut the crap - you get it - you understand what a terrorist is. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. The reason I drive this point home is to stop everyone throwing around the term. Listen close: "Terrorist" doesn't mean BAD GUY. Even if you find an entire country full of people who look and sound like the bad guys you are looking for that doesn't make them "terrorists". We didn't attack Korea after Pearl Harbor. To use a broad moral brush labeled "terrorist" to paint any corner of the earth in which we want to remove ethical accountability from ourselves is intellectually and morally lazy. A practice of convenience used to subdue our conscience as we, the military mighty, lumber through the innocent masses as a belligerent dim-witted giant with "Right" on our side. My two cents.....