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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (89492)10/10/2008 12:42:38 PM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (1) of 542009
 
Making a point on how the definition of a terrorist, their respectability and acceptability changes with time.

In Washington's day going clad in regular clothes and firing from ambush on soldiers was the equivalent of IEDs and truck bombs now.
But I'm sure you'd agree that his reputation has recovered... you wouldn't refuse to serve on a committee bearing his name, as it were?

Seriously, Shamir is an excellent example of how a murderous terrorist - no hyperbole, by any definition - can become accepted. And people worked with him despite whatever revulsion they felt at his past.
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