We humans are a quarrelsome lot. Nearly everything we contemplate, dream of or drool at the mere thought of, we do so from a spirit of conflict that often is simplified to a single either or proposition: either we win or the other guy wins. This phenomena we have ingloriously named "terrorism" is if nothing else, a uniquely human invention.
The point is, here in the 21st century, in light of Post Iraq Afghanistan and now quite possibly Yemen and the failed state of Somalia, I argue that terrorism as many of us believe it to be, is, contrary to popular opinion, not a nationality. Terrorism is a tactic, a plan exercised by a relatively small group who are as far from being a state as Somalia is from being the choice for the next Disneyland or McDonalds.
What is a tactic? In my humble opinion, a tactic is any plan of direct or indirect inverse involvement where a smaller system competes with a larger one by initiating a series of actions designed to maximize the entropy of that larger system by minimizing that system's potential. A fly pestering a driver of a car will buzz around the face of the driver, driving him or her to finally attempt swatting the fly. The economic potential of the driver has been minimized while the increased cost has maximized the driver's economic entropy.
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