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In trying to determine a reasonable working definition of terrorism and how the terrorist really are, we must recognize and deal with the idea that ' One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter'. From the book The Tyranny of Cliches by Jonah Goldberg, argues over who is or is not a terrorist that it is therefore impossible, to make meaningful distinctions between terrorist and freedom fighters. Jonah Goldberg qouted "As a descriptor, terrorist is almost never applied rigorously and consistently to describe the tactics a group is using. Rather it is invoked as a pejorative to vilify the actions only of groups one wishes to discredit. People who agree with the ends of the very same groups often don't think of them as terrorists, the

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