Counterinsurgency war can itself constitute the terror it claims to fight

Evidence

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?” asked historian Howard Zinn, a question that pierced the façade of lies surrounding the War on Terror. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 209

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A compact, unsettling question about the moral inversion at the heart of counterterrorism.