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Gallop, Newsweek, and CNN reflect varied views on terrorism and demonstrate the fact that many people in the United States do not share the same perspectives on the terrorist threat  that have driven political action by our nations leaders. In considering the issue of terrorism, then, it is beneficial to reflect upon the polls that have been conducted  since the events of September 11th, and relate these to the action of politicians, the views in the news media and the elements that have led to the War on  Terrorism. In reality there is no one definition of terrorism. This is what makes fighting terrorism so difficult -- there is a saying that "One mans terrorist is  another mans freedom fighter" (Ganor, 2003). It goes without saying that terrorism is usually what attacks on our own country are considered, while what we do to others is  a result of a prior action taken against us, the United States. But to actually define it more thoroughly, we can look at the book by Schmidt and Youngman  entitled Political Terrorism, in which the authors listed "109 different definitions of terrorism, which they obtained in a survey of leading academics in the field. From these definitions, the  authors isolated the following recurring elements, in order of their statistical appearance in the definitions [1]: Violence, force (appeared in 83.5% of the definitions); political (65%); fear, emphasis on terror  (51%); threats (47%); psychological effects and anticipated reactions (41.5%); discrepancy between the targets and the victims (37.5%); intentional, planned, systematic, organized action (32%); methods of combat, strategy, tactics (30.5%)" (Ganor,  2003). The problem lies in separating terrorism from just plain criminal acts - and whether these acts are a result of mental illness, or truly a war between political entities