Those serious about fighting a “war on terror” might want to start in Charleston, South Carolina, where plans have been made to erect a statue honoring terrorist Denmark Vesey.
Few people are happy any time I discuss what constitutes “terrorism” because I have a very simple definition of the term—the targeting of innocent civilians to advance an agenda or objective. Obvious terrorists al-Qaeda targeted the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House in 2001, killing thousands of innocent civilians for their own political objectives. In 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan intentionally killing thousands of civilians, also for political objectives. Writes columnist Pat Buchanan “if terrorism is the massacre of innocents to break the will of rulers, were not Hiroshima and Nagasaki terrorism on a colossal scale?”
