I just read once again an opinion piece from a newspaper whose writer
raged against that the reasons of terrorism are thought of at all and
that some people are ready to make peace with those who use terror
as a weapon!

Terrorism is a bad thing, and all whose use terrorism to gain something
are bad, and no attempt should be made to understand the reason of
their actions nor to negotiate with them. This was the essence of his
writing.

He was thinking of course individuals and groups, not the states that
use terror as a weapon. State terrorism seems to be sacred to people
like him; the thing that people in a uniform or in a political office are
behind it makes it legal to him.

I am always struck how naive and innocent these people are. They see
all in black and white and are not troubled at all to suggest that the
right way to fight terrorism is kill more people than the terrorists. They
see are clear line with "lawful" and "unlawful" violence where I can see
none. I don´t know should I call them fanatics or just totally naive
idealists.

But if people choose the road they suggest to be taken, then there is
no end to violence. No peace deal would have been ever made if all
parties should have been squeaky clean. I remember what one
Afghani wrote after the new government was established in Afghanistan
after the fall of the Taliban regime; he wrote that almost all the members
of the government were war criminals. The thing was, that no one that
had some kind of power was nice nor what we could call a "good person".
In ideal world, they would not have become ministers but prisoners
waiting their trial.