-- Anyone else noticed the way terrorism (i.e. attempting to bring about a change of government policy through violence or the threat/fear of violence) has now been semantically reduced to 'terror' (i.e. they're doing it to frighten us, because they're beastly, or something)...?
What's happened is that *the political dimension* of a terrorist act has been *defined out of existence*: there is no longer the implication of a *purpose* that justifies a public's wondering *why*. They just do it because 'it's what they do'...