The surgeon and acts of civilian terrorism: blast injuries

his quote reflects America’s commitment to freedom nd the implied sacrifices necessary to preserve those reedoms. Recently, much time has been spent on trying o appreciate the threat of terrorism that challenges those reedoms in today’s world. As defined by the Federal ureau of Investigation, terrorism is “the unlawful use of orce and violence against persons or property to intimdate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or ny segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social bjectives.” The two major goals of terrorists, which est serve their ends of destroying the most fundamental alues and infrastructure of societies, are the maximizing f casualty generation and maximizing the lethality of hose casualties. Pivotal to all terrorist activities, as defined by Paul R illar in his book entitled Terrorism and US Foreign Polcy, are the strong political motivations of the individual erpetrators. Arnold complements Pillar’s assumpions in the reference to “racial tribalism,” which decribes the banding together of single ethnic and cultural roups to replace existing political structures with one ased on their own cultural groups and ethical and culural homogeneity. Terrorist activities are best distinguished from those of ecognized engagements of war by the blatant lack of ompliance with the laws that are codified in the Geneva onvention, specifically, by targeting noncombatants in ivilian clothes, and taking, mistreating, and killing hos