Israel past struggles come to mind... didn't Menachem Begin kill british people by exploding bombs?
On 6/24/07, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com 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.
