Aux Armes, Citoyennes!
I can't believe we're just gonna casually
watch someone get murdered.
What is this, Detroit?
--The Final Girls (2015)
Money talks very loudly
You'd be surprised the friends you can buy
with small change
--Money Talks,
J. J. Cale
He was a man who had read everything,
and understood nothing
--John Cleese
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The media are calling the recent Paris attacks an act of war. French President Hollande says the nation's response will be "pitiless".
Unfortunately, these killings were simply another primitive terror incident carried out by non-state players, with simple explosives and individual weapons. It was a terror attack because the perpetrators did not have more sophisticated assets. If they did they would have used them.
Terror is the tool of the weak in a world of militarily powerful nation states.
Terrorism is not warfare. It is criminal activity. If it were warfare, then the players would be covered as legitimate combatants under the Geneva Conventions; they are not. They are consistently misrepresented as "militia" along with all the other related emotion-laden appellations.
Yet the fact remains: they are simple criminals unworthy of the title "combatant". Terrorism is not warfare, nor is warfare, terrorism. Just because we call terrorism "an act of war" does not make it so. We are not Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
[Cross-posted @ MilPub.]
Unfortunately, these killings were simply another primitive terror incident carried out by non-state players, with simple explosives and individual weapons. It was a terror attack because the perpetrators did not have more sophisticated assets. If they did they would have used them.
Terror is the tool of the weak in a world of militarily powerful nation states.
Terrorism is not warfare. It is criminal activity. If it were warfare, then the players would be covered as legitimate combatants under the Geneva Conventions; they are not. They are consistently misrepresented as "militia" along with all the other related emotion-laden appellations.
Yet the fact remains: they are simple criminals unworthy of the title "combatant". Terrorism is not warfare, nor is warfare, terrorism. Just because we call terrorism "an act of war" does not make it so. We are not Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
[Cross-posted @ MilPub.]
Labels: Paris attacks November 2015, terrorism, terrorism is not war
posted by rangeragainstwar at 10:22 AM
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