Politics has plagued efforts to agree on a common definition of terrorism at the United Nations. Some skeptics argue that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that treating suppression of terrorism as a global public good is thus merely the hypocrisy of the powerful trying to disarm the weak.
为了在联合国达成界定恐怖主义的共识，人们付出了艰苦的政治努力。有些怀疑论者提出某人眼中的恐怖分子也许是别人眼中的自由战士，因此将镇压恐怖视作全球的公益事业不过是强者试图让弱者放下武器的虚伪借口。