Terrorism has dominated the world due to its impacts that include death, diseases and sufferings of innocent people. The article illustrates a rational way to identify a terrorist through its arguments from famous and popular writers and the quote from those regarded as terrorists and anti-terrorists (Richardson, 2006). The author is just in his work as he helps the reader determine what the acts of terrorism are. It is overwhelming to realize the different ways of reasoning for those regarded as terrorists for instance, the quotes from Osama Bin Landen the most known leader of Al Qaeda terror group and the response from the former U.S. president George Bush. Osama claims that the move to bomb the twin towers was just an act to air the cries of the women and children killed with the help of the U.S. military. He claimed that they were just victims of the oppression led by the U.S. (Richardson, 2006). Bush claimed that such claims on terrorists being victims of oppression are illusions and propagandas used by terrorists to hide their intentions of killing to access power.
The debate is heated with several other quotes. The issue of Nelson Mandela who was regarded by the entire world as the leader of terror group during the fight for independence and later regarded as a hero against oppression leads to the complex nature of identifying a terrorist. It also leads to the question on whether terror attacks for justified reasons for instance, that of Mandela is terrorism or not. The change from the terrorist identity to one of the legitimate world heroes of Mandela leads to further questions on whether change in time would change a terrorist to a national or world hero (Richardson, 2006). The different views, thoughts of such issues and the sane suicide bombers leaves lot of questions that only a terrorist can understand. The article leads to some questions in the bid to identify a terrorist:
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Does time and reason change terrorists to national heroes?
Does fighting for human rights make one a terrorist?
Reference
Richardson, L. (2006). What Terrorists want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat . Random House.
