Defining Terrorism By Emmanuel Goldstein

Defining Terrorism By Emmanuel Goldstein: "To have a clear understanding of terrorism, it is imperative that one realize that militaristic terrorism is nothing more than a form of unconventional warfare that usually arises when opponents are unevenly matched in conflict. Unfortunately, unconventional warfare includes elements of behavior that are judged from relativistic perspectives that are fluid and change over time and change from situation to situation creating complex moral dilemmas and contradictions both in current and historical time frames.

Understanding relativism is essential to understanding how one distinguishes war from terrorism. However, most communities reject relativism in pursuit of ethnocentrism, religious singularity and dogmatic adherence to cultural traditions. For example, the British, for centuries, have embroidered their militarism in lofty moralisms. The British and their American descendants argue that rules of war and concepts such as gallantry and honor should extend to the battlefields of civilized warriors (the concept of civilized war is a euphemistic oxymoron created by race supremacist who consider themselves more civilized than the people they seek to kill and dominate and who fail to realize that civilized people should be able to resolve differences without warring). "