Graham Dobson wrote: > I think you confuse guerilla warfare with terrorism. Global terrorists blew > up the world trade center, the London underground, the Madrid train system, > the Bali night clubs, US embassy's in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole, > holiday resorts in Egypt and Turkey and are a threat to crash a plane into a > nuclear power station at any time. Al Queda's aim is nothing short of > unifying the entire Muslim world under one caliph. All non Muslims are > infidels to them. They are the worst sort of fanatics and not in any sense > "freedom fighters". The comparison is absurd. These are like Mike Madigan > says, the new fascists. Graham. >
Lets talk about Nicaragua. Killing civilians (peasants), is it terrorism or guerilla warfare? Because it was a common thing for the 'Contras' to do. Or civilians must be killed by a bomb to be terrorism? And if the one who plants the bomb has a uniform then he is not a terrorist? Are those civilians then collateral damage? Is the killer a glorious air force 'boy'? Just by the magic of the uniform? Shit man, how dumb can you be? >> Terrorism is also "in the eye of the beholder". The terrorists in >> Nicaragua in the 1980s were politically sympathetic to the US, so >> Ronald Reagan called them "freedom fighters". The comparisons to our >> own history have also been made; the colonists who revolted against >> the British used terrorism as a tactic, too. >> >> That's the important point: terrorism is merely a tactic employed >> when one side is not as powerful as the other as a way of evening the >> playing field. Were the people in the Middle East to start targeting >> only military targets, would people insist on continuing to refer to >> them as terrorists? >> >> > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
