After a decade of U.S. politics dominated by blanket denunciations of terrorism, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., has given several media interviews about his longtime support for the Irish Republican Army and revealed that he believes some forms of terrorism are acceptable.
King is in the news right now because he's holding a hearing Thursday on "radicalization" of U.S. Muslims, and many people have pointed out the contradiction between his defense of Irish terrorism and his opposition to Muslim terrorism.
Now, King's standard of good versus bad terrorism seems to have a lot to do with whether King supports the cause in question, but has also specified some characteristics of acceptable terrorism. Here's what he told the Times: