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"Terrorism" in St. Augustine's City of God
From a late April 1986 interview with Noam Chomsky:
Q: Why is "terrorism" such a useful ideological construct?
Chomsky: First, their conception of terrorism is highly selective.
There's a wonderful story in St. Augustine's _City of God_, where
Alexander the Great captures a pirate and says, "How dare you molest
the seas!" And the pirate turns to him and says, "How dare you molest
the world! I have a small ship, so I'm a pirate, a thief. But you have
a big navy so you're an emperor." If an emperor disturbs the world,
that's not terrorism, but if a thief disturbs the seas, that is
terrorism.
-found in _Language and Politics_, p.520
And so it goes...
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