Terrorist chic is almost
impossible to explain, and has little to do with actual terrorists.
Terrorist chic is
Garry Kasparov staring unnervingly across a chess board, one
eyebrow slightly cocked.
Terrorist chic is why they keep on making those
Bond movies--
Sean Connery was adept at expressing it.
It's that sense of
entitlement, maybe even
arrogance.
Like a "
The south shall rise again"
attitude, except replace "south" with almost anything else-- the not quite
vanquished yet ultimately
prevailing force.
Virgil's Aeneis had terrorist chic.