Originally Posted by jlomon

The nature of terrorism is that it does not require a full scale, head on assault against their target. The goal is for a group to be living in terror of what might happen to them, based on past experience of what has happened to others. A terrorist who straps a bomb onto themselves isn't a coward, regardless of who they seek to target. They're prepared to die for their cause. A terrorist who plants a bomb and leaves it behind for it to detonate on its own is a coward, regardless of who they seek to target.