Jerome, you want a "Republican scandal": here is one:
Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee that Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
organization is a clear case of a terrorist group, as
"probably" are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia and the Real Irish Republican Army in
Northern Ireland. "But then you start to run into
areas where one man's terrorist is another man's
freedom fighter, and that's where you have to
apply judgment,'' he added. "To test whether
groups qualify as targets against which the United
States could sustain an alliance, one would have to
ask whether they have a better way to 'express
grievances', 'change the political problem,' and
'gain their rights,' Powell said. "These are difficult
calls to make... You can be quite challenged in
explaining these differences with respect to the
Middle East,'' he added. "
No Mr Powell, you are completely wrong, to test if a group of people is "Freedom Fighters" or "Blood thirsty Terrorists", just look at what they are targeting, if they target innocent civilians, they are terrorists, if they target military installations, they are freedom fighters. The Macquis in France during WWII never put bombs on civilian trains in Germany, they derailed military trains, bombed Gestapo head-quarters and other military targets, they were "Freedom Fighters". Going into a "disco" and blowing up teenagers, is pure terrorism, going into a central bus station and showering bullets on innocent passengers, is terrorism, going into a church and killing worshipers, as in Pakistan today, is terrorism. Powell, wise up man. There is no grey area, it is black and white, your targets paint you as either a terrorist, like 5000 New Yorkers, or a freedom fighter (as the Taliban once used to be when their targets were occupying soviet forces).
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