I am sure there is some good reason that politicians and public figures uniformly refer to acts of terrorism as “cowardly”, but I don’t understand it. It doesn’t seem like the right word. I would say “horrific”, “terrible”, “dastardly”, “evil”, whatever. But “cowardly”? It seems like it must be in a “Politicians Handbook” somewhere. <\/p>\n
“If people are killed through terrorism, if a bomb explodes, we have found that the most effective word to describe such a horror is ‘cowardly’.” <\/p>\n
Do they think that calling the terrorists the name “cowardly” will insult them? Like: “Ooooh, you’re think you’re such a big brave terrorist, but y’know what? You’re just a coward.” <\/p>\n
Driving a car into a building and blowing yourself up is a lot of things, I would call it a lot of things, but I would not call it cowardly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am sure there is some good reason that politicians and public figures uniformly refer to acts of terrorism as “cowardly”, but I don’t understand it. It doesn’t seem like the right word. I would say “horrific”, “terrible”, “dastardly”, “evil”, … Continue reading