I just can’t get over the notion that a desperate attack on civilians in a mass transit system (e.g. London and Madrid) is terrorism but our retaliation for such things in the form of bombs (dropped from high altitudes) is American patriotism and strength in the fight for freedom and democracy.  I’m not a complete pacifist by any means, but war and death caused by war are tricky things.  In the typical escapist fashion as our government embraces, I ask the following question: What exactly does terrorism mean?  Doesn’t it depend on how you define terrorism?

In sampling Bishop Gumbleton’s homily, I also want to make it clear that my study of my own Catholicism and Catholicism in the global sense does not, never has, and never will mean that justice and peace are owned by Christians.  Such things are universal and are a part of us all no matter who we are.

This past week when those Navy Seals were lost. They call for an air strike. An airplane flying at 35,000 feet drops a 500 pound bomb. It hit a village! What kind of terrorism is that?

Sounds similar to Saddam’s treatment of the Kurds after an ambush on his caravan.