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einhverfr on Oct 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pakistani family of drone strike victim gives harr...

Because state actors can't be terrorists.

Now it could be a war crime, and indeed arguably we tried Milosevic for less.

cabalamat on Oct 30, 2013 [–]

> Because state actors can't be terrorists.

Can I take it you're unaware that the word was coined to describe a state?

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