What is terrorism?

Just what is terrorism? And who is a terrorist?

World governments have different answers.

"...the unlawful use of--or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives," goes the US translation.

Terrorists-leaning, oil-rich (and even destitute) Arab countries define it as "the slitting of throats of the Infidels and the destruction of the Great Satan America and its whores--in return for 79 virgins in paradise."

OK, i made that one up.

Allegedly, "terrorism" and therefore, the "hows" and "whys" that contstitute it, is still debatable, even if you're reading this and a democrat-commandeered plane is heading toward you window. There are purpotedly "crucial" issues to consider, some moral matters to discuss, a litany of cross-cultural, multi-national idiosyncracies to be resolved.

At the center-stage of this constellation of capitulations, capitulations and more capitulations by powerful but pathetically confused democratic governments, is the worn-out, fallacious, non-sensical argument that "somebody's terrorist is somebody's hero." It's no wonder that that PARALYTIC world body U.N. (better read as Union of Necromancers), after thousands of lives killed and billions now living in fear, has not yet come up a denifite meaning of that evil term.

So we let Palestinian extremists and Hizbullah argue that Israel commits terrorism when that legitimate government entity battles murdering freaks. We let Zealots name-drop the name of Nelson Mandela to validate their horrid acts. We let "legit" terrorists Leila Khaled obscure the line between "terror" and "liberty." We let liberals huddle in frenzy for the next photo-ops with Osama.

Fanaticism, fundamentalism, extremism--people under the genre' can be barely tolerated in a democratic society; they can never be allowed to exist when they resort to terror.

And when men are subjected to terrorist acts, their brains don't automatically extract feeds from the cacaphony of government or terrorist-sponsored definitions of "terrorism." They just feel the horror. They just die. Their loved ones feel the trauma of both the debauchery and the loss of lives.

Somebody's hero today can always go and kill somebody else tomorrow...