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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
What Charlatan said.
I hate the the pretentious airs of self-righteous surprise I hear from so many people on this topic.
May I ask you American readers to cast your eye inwards and backwards to your own history, when your own country was born from "freedom fighters" (what Bush and Cheney would today call terrorists), fighting from within the civilian population against a large, powerful, foreign and very rich "invading" power.
I'm no apologist for Hezbollah, but I can't stand self-righteous hypocrisy. And, to be blatantly honest, US foreign policy and much of its public opinion currently reeks of it.
Mr Mephisto
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The plans were hatched from houses, the spies that gathered intelligence did so from towns and cities. The shots that the colonials fired were from forests and fields not from behind a wall of women and children.
To sum up the american revolution by comparing it to tactics used by Hezbollah is only an excersise of ignorance. It's very easy and indeed common to throw a label (such as self-righteous hypocrisy) on that which you do not understand.