Vae victis, and to the victor go the spoils. (This is not an endorsement.)
> "When the powerful take things from the less powerful, the powerless don't have much to do except curse the powerful," Kurin says.
Indeed.
> "When the powerful take things from the less powerful, the powerless don't have much to do except curse the powerful," Kurin says.
Indeed.
Were we at war with Yemen when this happened?
We can, and should, make a significant distinction between attacks on civilians and attacks on military targets.
Is the Islamic State a state-level organization? How big and well organized does the state need to be?
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=10...
When a news anchor says it, it’s a talking point. When Obama said it, a U.S. citizen was assassinated without trial. Whenever you see the executive branch use the phrase “terrorist” to describe an American citizen you should worry.
When news anchors used it to describe protests it was a talking point. When Trump used it to describe protestors, that was cause for concern.
When news outlets used the word to describe the Jan 6th riots, it was a talking point. When Biden used it for the Jan 6 riots, that was cause for concern.
The executive branch assassinates terrorists. News anchors do not.
For a political cause, or at least a cause. Otherwise it’s just mass murder.
Once you win, everything you did to win gets written down as righteous and the other side vilified (they forced you to do it).
It doesn't take much imagination to guess what the US founding fathers would be called if they lost, by Britain.