On the Ethical Discourse of War: A Critique of the View that “Any Attack on Civilians in War, Regardless of Justification, Is Terrorism:"
Why must we define terrorism primarily in terms of attacks on civilians? This is a fundamental question. Here, the term “civilian” is presupposed as a passive, inert, and de-agentified entity—an “othered” mass stripped of resistance, rather than a spontaneous, subterranean current, a dynamic, centralized, revolutionary subject in the classical