One cannot understand, or justify, or sadly defeat terrorism.

HOWEVER, WE MUST NEVER FORGET NOR RELENT IN OUR EFFORTS TO ERADICATE THIS EVIL.

Even totalitarian, militaristic regimes from Tsarist Russia through to any country you chose to name, have been subjected to terrorism.

The terrorists are like rats or mosquitoes. Like rats and mosquitoes, we can tie ourselves in knots attempting some form of justification for their existence.

Like rats and mosquitoes, we can try to restrict their appearance and contact with humans, but we know they will always be there.

We manage to construct our own lives, free as possible from their irritations. The rat can be deadly with the transmition of plague and other illnesses. Likewise, the mosquito with malaria etc.

However, they are but – within our perceptions –irritations.

This, unfortunately, is not the case with terrorism.

It should be. Terrorists kills far fewer innocent people than either rats or mosquitoes.

We must not give terrorism the “glory” nor the “Importance” it demands, or attempt any justification.

NOR SUPPORT ORGANISATIONS OR MOVEMENTS THAT USE TERROR

Otherwise, terrorism wins.