U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

Re:U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afgha... by lopmotr on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:20AM (#21024726)

I think terrorism is killing random members of a population to scare the others into some political or ideological change. It wouldn't count if it was targeted at fighters and civilians got killed by accident.

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Re:U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afgha... by misja on Friday September 20, 2019 @05:28AM (#21024772)

That sounds like a reasonable definition. But how would this definition qualify the Taliban attacks on military bases and police stations in Afghanistan?

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Re:U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afgha... by klagermkii on Friday September 20, 2019 @07:25AM (#21025385)

I think one would need to put something like that as a guerrilla war.

There needs to be a distinction between:

* attacking civilians (terrorism)

* attacking The System, but going for softer targets and not taking its military might directly head on (guerilla war)

* attacking The System, in a Military v Military setting (regular warfare)

While there are groups that will never have the direct strength to take a head on fight, I think it's beneficial to have a category showing that they limit their targets to agents of the system rather than any random civilian.

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