Mario Cervi Quotes

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

The PKK is the number one threat in terms of terror in our country.

They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.

Terrorism often finds a home in states mired in civil war …

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.

An insurgency is the most difficult to fight of all military activities.

... my link to the bomb throwers.

Terrorism is what the weak use to increase their bargaining power against the strong.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.

We of course define all terror organizations as threats, but the PKK is the primary threat.

You cannot defend a terrorist group just because they are fighting Daesh.

The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.

Iraq is fighting a war against terrorism. We are trying our best to fight them. We are trying our best to fight outlaws in our country.

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease. There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.