Can Terrorism Be Justified?

"Can Terrorism Be Justified?" With a question like this, it is truly left to one's perspective. The American Government is a large terrorist organization. Most notably, the bombing of civilian inhabited areas of Hiroshima. We have fire bombed German cities regularly, and first chance we got, we bomb Tokyo in retaliation of their attacking our military facilities in Hawaii. If anyone threatens our beliefs, we flex our muscles and react. Ask a terrorist if a …

…It is unfortunate that terrorism targets civilian populations, but civilian populations are a legitimate target when trying to change a government policy. In conclusion, terrorism is just that, striking fear into civilian population, a intimidation tactic aimed at civilians to make a government change something. This is not justified to me. If you want to make the government change, attack military assets. Attacking civilians proves your cowardice, and in the end detrimental to your cause.