What is the difference between Patriotism and Terrorism? Or they are just synonyms to one another.
I happened to watch Snowden, and there was this scene which goes like -"...five, four,three,two,one. Engage target. Attack." And with the target, four-five random people are gone in a cloud of dust.
Middle east countries have become a video game for USA, they are looking at them on their screens all the time and the moment they "feel" something is wrong, BOOM and there goes the cloud of dust. Two-three causalities with that one "potential" threat are normal. But those two-three casualties have now become thousands of innocent human lives. Those lives are not worth anyone's time. Those people are just objects on a computer screen.
Everyday people come out of their houses, not knowing if they will make it back or not. Imagine a kid, who has seen this horror throughout his childhood, someone from somewhere dropped a bomb and his parents, his friends were dead in a matter of few seconds. They have been paying a price for the crime they never committed. Their own home, their own country has become someone else's battleground so at last those people decided to retaliate, and are called terrorists.
Look at the another scenario, after tolerating Britishers for years, American colonies retaliated. They did it because Britishers invaded their country and imposed their rules on them. And when people couldn't tolerate their inhuman behavior, they decided to fight back. It gave birth to the great American Revolution, this was called Patriotism. But from British point of view it was an act of Terrorism
I do not support terrorism at any cause, you can't justify killing an innocent person just because something bad happened to you. All I am saying is, some of them are trying to defend their country from foreign invasion, just because you are a powerful country, doesn't give you the right to decide the future of every nation on the map.
How would Americans feel if there were drones over their heads all the time? Imagine the psychological situation of those middle east countries, to erase some potential threats thousands of innocent people are killed every year. Casualties in countries like Pakistan and Afghanistan due to American drone attacks are way more than 9/11 casualties and people are still dying because one douche bag attacked the world's most powerful country.
So it doesn't matter if it's a terrorist activity or a patriotic one, innocents pay the ultimate price !!!


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