Shitty Question
I just started an online course in International Relations and this is one of the questions for our chapter 5 quiz:
Which of the following statements about terrorism is not true?
terrorism can be used to achieve a political objective
most terrorist attacks are directed against the U.S. and its interests
Terrorism has been employed by all types of people all over the globe
the death and destruction caused by terrorism is limited
Now of course I know that most terrorist attacks have nothing to do with the United States. But how, in the nuclear age, can you possibly say that 'the death and destruction caused by terrorism is limited'?
I just found the line in our text book that says "Ordinarily the death and destruction caused by terrorism is limited, at least in comparison to that of war." But what is war but a form of terrorism? Is that supposed to mean that the Holocaust was not an act of terrorism? Or the Japanese internment? Or any terrorism act that happens to occur during a war or end up causing a war? What about the Rwandan genocide or Darfur? Or what about the Invisible Children of Uganda? I wish the writers of this book would go and tell them that the death and destruction of the LRA that rules their daily lives is "limited".
But just the fact that it is possible for a terrorist to eradicate the Earth with a nuclear weapon, to me anyway, means the potential death and destruction of terrorism is, in fact, limitless.
Which of the following statements about terrorism is not true?
terrorism can be used to achieve a political objective
most terrorist attacks are directed against the U.S. and its interests
Terrorism has been employed by all types of people all over the globe
the death and destruction caused by terrorism is limited
Now of course I know that most terrorist attacks have nothing to do with the United States. But how, in the nuclear age, can you possibly say that 'the death and destruction caused by terrorism is limited'?
I just found the line in our text book that says "Ordinarily the death and destruction caused by terrorism is limited, at least in comparison to that of war." But what is war but a form of terrorism? Is that supposed to mean that the Holocaust was not an act of terrorism? Or the Japanese internment? Or any terrorism act that happens to occur during a war or end up causing a war? What about the Rwandan genocide or Darfur? Or what about the Invisible Children of Uganda? I wish the writers of this book would go and tell them that the death and destruction of the LRA that rules their daily lives is "limited".
But just the fact that it is possible for a terrorist to eradicate the Earth with a nuclear weapon, to me anyway, means the potential death and destruction of terrorism is, in fact, limitless.