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Spencer Ackerman worries about the effects of forgetting the definition of “terrorist” , as Palin says Bill Ayers is unquestionably a terrorist while she wouldn’t neccesarily go that far when it comes to abortion-clinic bombers or protestors hurling Molotov cocktails at police:

The point isn’t that one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, which is also an absurd, lazy and euphemistic statement. It’s that when you start down this path, you lose the ability to draw necessary distinctions, and end up with an overbroad and counterproductive definition of your enemy. That’s a feature, not a bug, of calling something a war on “terrorism.” Bush started it. Palin embraced it. And now she’s trapped in its absurdity.

I have a different problem with Palin’s answer after the jump.

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