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In short, guerrillas wants to "save" the population and the country, whether this "saving" its wanted or not (Mao Tse-tung, Che Guevara), while terrorists wants to "save" only a segment of that population (IRA, ETA). This means that the critical mass necessary for a terrorist war to be "succesful" its lower than for a guerrilla war, thus making a guerrilla war easier to win for the counter-guerrilla forces.

This is true. Look at the IRA. It has been proven in various referendums, polls etrc that the vast majority of ppl in Ireland- catholic & protestant on both sides of the border- just want everyone to stop killing one another and come to some sort of peace. Most of them were happy with the Good Friday agreement and support the principle of the power-sharing idea.

But the IRA and other bastard Groups over there keep blowing stuff up, keep killing people. There is no way they can possibly claim to have the support of the population any more, and I for one am no longer willing to even credit them with a political agenda. As far as I'm concerned they are a bunch of psychopaths who enjoy killing, and only use the political thing as an attempt to justify their sick passtime. These people should be treated as murderers and lunatics, not as some kind of political force.

Look at the Omagh bombing- that wasn't targetted at any particular population. Both catholics and protestants died that day. People from north and republic of Ireland, as well as people from other countries altogether. How can they claim to do it for anything other than sadistic pleasure?

Same applies to the ppl who organised the WTC attacks. Stop treating them like some political/ national force backed by a population and start treating them like the criminals they are.