Senior Natanz Nuclear executive slain in Tehran

[Pardalis]

How is blowing up civilian NOT terrorism?

I noticed you put civilian in singular. So that means you can answer your own question.

 

[WildCat]

How is blowing up civilian NOT terrorism?

When it's not random and is not being done to force political change.

 

[bit_pattern]

I noticed you put civilian in singular. So that means you can answer your own question.

So how many civilians have to die before it can be you will deign to class it as terrorism?

When it's not random and is not being done to force political change.

Since when is 'random' a definition of terror? And, considering this WAS done to force political change then it most definitely IS terrorism by your own convoluted definitions.

I think the only definition for terror in your minds is simply when "they" do it.

 

[Pardalis]

So how many civilians have to die before it can be you will deign to class it as terrorism?

I think everyone has a good grasp of the difference between a targeted assassination and a terror attack, well, except you for some reason.

And, considering this WAS done to force political change

No, I don't think whoever did this expected Iran to change its policies, if anything it's more an act of sabotage than terrorism.

I think the only definition for terror in your minds is simply when "they" do it.

Please keep your strawmen and your pathetic pretentions of telepathy to yourself

 

[funk de fino]

Enlightening to hear that many in the IRA, UVF, Real IRA and LVF are/were not terrorists because they carried out targeted assassinations.

 

[Pardalis]

And most times terrorists claim responsibility for the attacks.

 

[WildCat]

Since when is 'random' a definition of terror?

It certainly helps. It's not like Iran had anyone in mind when they blew up a Jewish center in Argentina and killed scores of Jews.

And, considering this WAS done to force political change

It was? What political change was that?

 

[WildCat]

Enlightening to hear that many in the IRA, UVF, Real IRA and LVF are/were not terrorists because they carried out targeted assassinations.

Odd you ignore the other criteria.

 

[bit_pattern]

So WC, apart from your own hamfisted assertions, can you please provide a definition of "terror" that defines it as being dependent on being a random act? Or are you talking from beyond the sphincter again?

 

[Pardalis]

So WC, apart from your own hamfisted assertions, can you please provide a definition of "terror" that defines it as being dependent on being a random act? Or are you talking from beyond the sphincter again?

Why don't you tell us, you're the telepath.

 

[bit_pattern]

I love how Pardalis can just construct his own definitions of things and argue that everyone else should agree with the crap he makes up off the top of his head

 

[Weird Science]

I fail to see why this is so complicated. The moral difference between this assassination and, say, blowing up a bus of schoolchilren in Tel Aviv is quite clear. Those who blow up the schoolbus do it in order to implement a genocide of the Jews; those who blew up the Iranian scientist did it to prevent a genocide of the Jews. It's like the moral difference between the deaths in the Nazi concentration camps and the deaths caused by the RAF bombings.

 

[bit_pattern]

I fail to see why this is so complicated. The moral difference between this assassination and, say, blowing up a bus of schoolchilren in Tel Aviv is quite clear. Those who blow up the schoolbus do it in order to implement a genocide of the Jews; those who blew up the Iranian scientist did it to prevent a genocide of the Jews. It's like the moral difference between the deaths in the Nazi concentration camps and the deaths caused by the RAF bombings.

This cartoon sums up this post nicely!

 

[fuelair]

Why did cyanide go out of style? Much less collateral damage than an explosion -.-

Harder to get it to the target.

 

[Weird Science]

Indeed so, bit pattern, it does sum it up nicely. But the point is whether my claim is true or not, I would say, not whether it's possible to draw sarcastic cartoons about it. I don't think you actually showed what, if anything, is wrong with my point.

 

[funk de fino]

Odd you ignore the other criteria.

That's because it is something you made up.