Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it …

Christopher Hitchens
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. ✨ Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left, p.5252, NYU Press
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