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Re:US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror by a_c_s on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:45PM (#9625668)
Trying to overthrow a government is not terrorism.
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Re:US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror by dragonwriter on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:59PM (#9625759)
> Trying to overthrow a government is not terrorism.

True; "trying to overthrow a government" is a goal, "terrorism" is a means deployed to achieve a goal. You can do the former without the latter or the latter without the former, but the Cuban Project had the goal of overthrowing a government and used terrorism as a major one of its means.

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Re:US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror by flipp3r on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:51PM (#9625708)
But if someone tries to overthrow the US government it is, right?
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Re:US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror by jules on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:50PM (#9625699)
Unless it's the US government, right?
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Re:US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror by wnevets on Friday May 29, 2015 @01:03PM (#9625784)
its freedom fighting
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Re:US removes Cuba from list of state sponsors of terror by sarciszewski on Friday May 29, 2015 @12:50PM (#9625700)
It isn't?
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