Public Opinion Divide
“They think by these [terror] measures they can stop the resistance. But the Americans are creating more resistance by doing these things. The resistance will not stop attacking them unless they pull out of our country.”
Amer, clerk, Beji oil refinery.
Dahr Jamail, Arkan Hamed, “A Town Becomes a Prison,” Inter Press Service,
… the purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. People think that terrorists, the purpose is to kill people, but it isn't. It's to terrorize. It's to alter people's behavior. It's to make free people be something other than free people.
Donald Rumsfled, remarks to Task Force Freedom,
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