The reports of its death are greatly exagerated.
Gee, the British would never do something like that, neither of course would Canada, now of course we have no foreign intelligence service capable of doing so! That I'm sure though is beside the point.
Why is it that I suspect that if suicide bombers blew up Canadian Place, Scotia Place, Brookfield Place, and One King Street West killing huge numbers of those at work that day that at least some on TERB would be less worried about whether terror bombers can be called cowards or not.
Wow, I haven't seen 'politically correct' talk like that since the last time I read Joseph Conrad. Keep on upholding the White Man's Burden view of the 'inferiors' in the world.
Call these people cowards just makes one seem ignorent. They may be many things, but I simply do not see how calling them cowards is anything then stupid rhetoric. I'm sure lots of people called the VC cowards as well. ..
I don't know whether they should be called "cowards" or not. They probably weren't cowards. That doesn't make them any less evil, though. The attacks on 9/11 were truly evil acts, that's undeniable.
They're cowards in the sense that they won't engage their enemy head on militarily even though they claim to wage a 'holy war', but instead conduct terrorist acts on innocent civilians, or exclusively use guerilla warfare tactics on opposing armed forces.
I think Japanese Kamikaze pilots are not cowards since they would attack their enemy head on, and risk getting shot or blown up if not crash to the sea in failure.
