Greenwald Interrogates Terrorism

It’s another of those subjects that can get one accused of not being sufficiently patriotic…questioning the tactics of your one’s own government. Whenever I think of how criticism of terrorism is only allowed to be directed outward, it’s like I’m back to being a child feeling angry at an unjust world. What good are values if they only start past the border?

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Glenn Greenwald puts it much more eloquently:

Terrorism is simultaneously the term that means nothing and justifies everything. That’s why such strong emotions are evoked when it is used in a way that deviates from mandated orthodoxies. It’s a meaningless term, but incredibly (perhaps incomparably) significant in governing how power and violence can be wielded and against whom.

Greenwald is terrific at making sure that there’s an adult in the room, and he provides plenty of evidence that the United States and Israel are using possibly using the tactics of terrorism against non-combatants in Iran.