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Originally posted by archer2371
So what you're saying is that George Washington is just the same as a guy who sent young men to die and kill 3,000 innocent civilians. Right, that makes a whole lot of sense. If bin Laden were targeting military people within his country, it would be so much more different. But attacking innocent people who have done nothing to him is inexcusable. Name me one incident where the American Revolutionaries specifically targeted civilians to wrest from the grasp of an oppressive British rule, there are none. Yeah, you're right, in the eyes of the British they were traitors, but you cannot define the Minutemen as terrorists because they did not specifically target civilians. But believe me when I say that a majority of the FF were indeed Christian, check it out, I encourage you.
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Terrorism is defined as non-state sponsered military action--not killing innocent people.
But since you bring it up, killing civilians is "collateral damage." Sometimes, according to some people on this board, people have to "break some eggs to make an omelate."
If you read my posts rather than reading
into them I stated that their ideologies were similar--not that the people or that their actions were the same.
We'll save the issue of the innocent, indigenous population already living here
who were deliberately targeted for another thread...