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.