Terrorism Takes Many Shapes.

The U.S. "War on Terror" has long been an issue I've regarded as a wholly disingenuous way for the American government to do what it wants, when it wants, to whomever it wants, with no fear of a backlash from the citizens it represents. Ever since George W. Bush, one of the worst war criminals in recent history, made it perfectly legal to torture, rape, and murder civilians and refer to the victims as "casualties of war" and destroy hospitals, schools, homes, villages, towns and the futures of generations not even born yet as "collateral damage", terrorism is no longer something Americans need only fear, it is something in which they are complicit.

The U.S. has enjoyed the role of "the big fish in the small pond" for decades. The flexing of American muscle, whether in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan has never been called terrorism, but why is it any different than the Al Qaeda attacks on American soil? Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have died at the hands of U.S. troops. Does any rational, reasonable human being not think that American soldiers have terrorized the citizens of which every country they have attacked?

In this new age of heightened security, no-fly lists, terrorist watches, and general American paranoia regarding all persons not WASPish, one has to take a moment to wonder about Karma. Maybe what goes around really does come around.