Is terrorism something moral?

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The oppressed ones have a right to hate their oppresors. I don't care about civilian blood.

A por ellos como en Paracuellos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracuellos_massacres

The terrorists seem to think so.....

Hitler thought the "Final Solution" was moral.

Morals are not something to play with.

Okay. You seem to be politically aware ... but you have gone too far.

You are right when you say that the oppressed have the right to hate their oppressors. However, most of the American people have no idea what is going on thanks to the propaganda machine.

Additionally, the American people have almost no control over the war machine, due to the undemocratic nature of the United States. The people voted for Barack Obama back in 2008 because they wanted peace ... then the war industry corrupted Obama.

We shouldn't lie back and say "We deserve all this terrorism." I would never encourage anyone to act against their own rational self-interest. Instead, we should take back our government and our society ... so that we can defuse this ugly situation.

No.

But we should be honest and still call terrorism terrorism when committed by states. We seem to give a pass when a government is using violence or threat of violence to achieve political or ideological goals. That will mean no longer just joining the jingoist circle jerk when your government announces an intention to act in such a way.

Now, I do question why it's perfectly acceptable for states to commit terrorism and dismiss the innocent casualties as 'collateral damage' and yet when non-state actors do the same it's a tragedy and not acceptable in the slightest. Just because states insist they have a monopoly on legitimate use of force, that doesn't make it so.