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Old 03-09-2006, 03:43 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Dane Bramage
I think what Powerclown is trying to prove is that there are two sides to every story. One persons terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. It's only because we were/are on the recieving end of it that we term it terrorist.

In other words, if you can't fight an army directly because of overwhelming superior technology, then you fight a guerrilla war. If your enemy has big tanks and you have a pickup truck... then you don't stand there and fight.

Now... I'm not justifying the killing of school children, but the desparate do desparate things. It's easy to sit here and say that they are evil and deserve to be killed while we sit behind our compters in our air conditioned offices, grow fat off of fast food and the depressed economies of the world.

Has it ever occured to you that we might be considered terrorists in some of the nations that we have conqured? How many covert operations has the US run that has toppled governments? What gives us the right to meddle in the workings of other nations, and then when they fight back... we call them terrorists?

Does that hit the mark, Powderclown?
As regards those instances I mentioned in the opening post, I understand that people in certain areas of the world (near and far) celebrate anytime a western nation (or western ally) gets hit, but I'm not one of those who applaud or empathize along with them.
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