How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.