Peter Ustinov (from “Achtung! Vorurteile,” translated from the original German) (via r-i-o-t)

Clausewitz famously discussed war as “the formulation of policy by other means,” and I don’t find it a stretch to consider terrorism the same way. Terrorism and war are both fundamentally political, so equating the two as forms of political violence, often separated by how much power the perpetrator possesses, is understandable. 

In considering this issue, though, it’s important not be reductive. War and terrorism are not interchangeable or equivalent terms, and terrorism is not only used by the weak. State terrorism has a long and bloody history, and it’s been used by countries we could not by any stretch call poor.