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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: thames_sider who wrote (24022)7/13/2006 4:57:32 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) of 541054
 
I do think it is important to distinguish between soldiers and non- soldiers. For example, during the Nazi occupation of Europe many would see the killing of a Nazi soldier as a legitimate act of war, even by "terrorists". I would find it hard to distinguish other terrorists in occupied territories from the folks who fought the Nazis. For that reason I put it the way that I did. Terrorism is not always "wrong", not even from a general US perspective- I think most people support the "terrorist" groups that worked against the Nazis. I think most of us understand why oppressed people whose countries have been occupied resort to terrorism. People in the US used to think the Taleban acts of terrorism against the Russians were laudable.

Sorting the "good" terrorists from the "bad" ones usually depends on subjective judgments, but the difference between a soldier and a civilian is usually more objective (though not always, a la Veitnam).
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