Terrorism Only Applies To Me, Not To Thee

It's the attitude of the U.S. media and government that "terrorism" is the most horrible thing there is. And to be a victim of "terrorism" is the worst, most outrageous injustice and demands retribution (called "justice," which includes assassination).

You may have been led to believe that placing car bombs in a crowded city and killed 43 or more people, for some political purpose, is "terrorism." But you'd be wrong.

It all depends on who did it to whom.

The latest two car bombings in Turkey, which hit the city of Reyhanli, killed 51 people and wrecked nearby buildings. Turkey immediately blamed the Syrian regime. Shortly thereafter they arrested some Turks who they claim were linked to the Syrian secret police. The Washington Post says they were members of a Turkish "Marxist terrorist" group, apparently quoting the Turkish foreign minister. The WP calls the members "militants," following standard U.S. media practice of downgrading terrorist bombings that don't target western targets as merely bombings, and the terrorists who perpetrate them, "militants." Of course, being a militant is not necessarily a bad thing. Terrorist has a totally negative connotation, an epithet, a term of odium.

Note how the body of the dead brother who was blamed for the Boston Marathon "terrorist" bombing had to be snuck into a cemetery all the way south in Virginia for a secret burial, and local officials immediately squawked when they learned of it. "Terrorists" are reviled in America. That's why right wing terrorists are never called terrorists here. It would cause hostility towards right wingers. Timothy McVeigh, for example, is usually not referred to as a "terrorist," whereas that epithet is routinely applied to "Carlos the Jackal," for example, to FARC, to Hamas and Hezbollah, to black American militants, to leftist revolutionaries who committed robberies, etc.)

See a deeper and more details political and media analysis at "New York Times Confers Legitimacy On Taliban Terrorists."

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