Posted on Jul 18, 2015
Interesting take on Chattanooga. If this was ISIS inspired, aren't Military facilities targets of war, not terrorism?
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That's a good way of looking at it. But I think the difference between terrorism and war has been blurred since 9/11/01!
That's a good way of looking at it. But I think the difference between terrorism and war has been blurred since 9/11/01!
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Fair question. If terrorism is any attack against any target, isn't the word rather meaningless? I'm not sure HOW to classify this, but I do find it interesting that IF this is the first actual Daesh attack on US soil, it was a military target. A soft one, yes, but military nonetheless.
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Just when you think we are kind of safe, something like this happens. Military installations and recruiting stations will go extra security alert for a little while and then we will become complacent again until the next attack.
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Clearly one of the best questions I have seen on RallyPoint to date. My guess is that if you are the friends and family members of the Marines who were killed it does not matter. I think if the perpetrator of the attack were to have lived and gone to trial the idea of this being an act of war would be an interesting defense.
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Thanks for the response. I thought that it was a great question to ask the RP community.
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