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gee whiz, folks, such snippiness about the wholly mythologized history of the american revolution...such inability to countenance the possibility that not everything that happened then was wholly ethical....but i suppose it's easy to separate the revolution proper from what was happening across the period on the "frontier"--but hey, who really cares about that kind of thing anyway? what matters is that the mythology stay intact.
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It's not mythology. You can visit where the battles were taken place. You can even dig up the old bullets and rifles if you stay long enough. Show me where our fighters hid within and only fought within cities.
They didn't. That's not mythology, that's reality. Very few battles took place within a town or city, and if they did it was A) on the outskirts, or B) a city which was abandoned used only as impromptu fortifications.
Our war was not won by forcing the British to kill our civilians, that is the ONLY way Hezbolla expects to win. To call the two the same are as logically correct as calling a plane and a turtle equal.