From: Gene McAloon 

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.

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

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

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