Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not war on terrorism." - #noamchomsky. And a meditation on the miltiarist matrix's use of the word 'terrorism', by #RobertFisk, in 'The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East'.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Mar 2019

@nils_gilman “Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously... /1

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Quoted by3/ The War on Terrorism.