It's necessary to cut Tom some slack, he doesn't get out much, you know.

That great Republican Sec. of State, George P. Shultz defined terrorism as a "form of political violence. The orerarching goal of all terrorists is the same: they are trying to impose their will by force--a special kind of force designed to create an atmosphere of fear."

The actions that Shultz condemned so strongly; the violations of international law; the acts of war committed without declaring war; the interference in the internal affairs of a soverign state; the attempt to alienate the people from the government by force, all were acts the USA officially condemned in 1984 and were found guilty of in the illegal mining of the harbors in Nicaragua by the World Court and Europe tends to remember in Iraq.

But then, Tom and GWB are morally and ethically content to ignore world opinion, international law, and signed treaty obligations when it suits administration policy positions.

Publius