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To: TobagoJack who wrote (17595)	3/30/2002 2:15:37 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>The WAT effort has in fact been hijacked in all nations (incl. Russia and China), in varying degrees, for much less noble purposes.<< Agreed. One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. The Israelis have made a particularly cynical use of the WAT. eurunion.org It's interesting to remember that the US was born out of terrorism in what was, at that time, a civil war. A solid minority - perhaps 20% - of the US population in the mid-1770s was loyal to King George III. Georgia, New York and South Carolina, as well as Massachusetts and New Jersey, were Loyalist strongholds where as much as one-third of the population was against colonial independence. More than 30,000 Americans took up arms in support of the British Crown and more than 100,000 Loyalists were eventually killed or forced to emigrate, many to Canada.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (17595)	3/30/2002 2:21:19 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 74559

I have not followed the war in Sri Lanka at all. When I was in undergraduate school at LSU in Baton Rouge, my then boyfriend (not the man I married) lived in a house with a Tamil student and a Sinhalese student, and we socialized often. This was 25 years ago, and I have often wondered whether they went back to Sri Lanka, and, if so, what became of them. What do I know about the conflict in Sri Lanka? The Tamils were there first, the Sinhalese conquered from the north, they are lighter skinned and consider themselves higher caste, which the Tamils resent. It is possible for Tamils and Sinhalese to live in the same house peaceably, cook and eat meals together, drink tea together, and treat each other as brothers. Sri Lanka is a beautiful country, and war is an abomination, especially ethnic conflict over the same piece of land. As for the island being in India's sphere of influence - that's outside my knowledge. It's very close to India, physically, but not a part of India. >>"They are using all the American weapons against us"<< True. Either there will be a Jewish state or there won't. We say there will be a Jewish state. We also want a Palestinian state but not on the exact same pieces of land. The ball has been in Arafat's court for a while, but all he's lobbing back is grenades.