From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:18:17 +0200, Phil Payne 
wrote:
>
>
>>>Forget Osama bin Laden. He and his little bungling bunch of religious
ideologues
>>>will accomplish nothing at all. They are a pin-prick on the world body,
nothing
>>>more. It has always been so with these "terrorist"
idiots. They  come and
scare
>>>everybody for awhile, then fade into nothingness. It has never been
otherwise.
>>
>>"Terrorists" have in the past been quite - almost universally -
>>successful.  The USA and Israel come immediately to mind.
>
>
> But you see, they were terrorists only to you Brits. To everyone else they
were
> freedom fighters and from G. Washington on were seen as such. The mistake you
> Brits have always made is branding as terrorists those fighting for freedom
from
> Brit tyranny. Big mistake, because you then are in the humiliating position
of
> having to negotiate with those "terrorists" when you finally
decide to that
the
> cost of keeping them under control is no longer sustainable.
>

Bit like you with the Arabs then.


> I think of Jomo Kenyata, for example. Branded a terrorist by London and the
> local white louts, he became one of Africa's early heroes and was universally
> recognized as such.

As OBL will be in the Arab world.

> But then so was Washington.

Nah. He was just pissed he couldn't get into the British Army & then
he'd discovered he was a crap tobacco farmer.

> For that matter, there have been
> so many as the Empire crumbled. All branded terrorists, all in fact freedom
> fighters.
>

Just like OBL.

> But none of that has anything to do with a real terrorist, OBL.
>

He's no different

Adam

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