How come I havent seen this quote in MSM?
Furthur googling found this in the Washinton times:
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040825-073054-9161r.htm
"France's late President Francois Mitterrand threw open the doors to left-wing Italian terrorists, who were allowed to remain in France indefinitely on condition they renounced violence."
A similar attitude was found in the USA prior to 9-11. Indeed, an ex 60's radical had a positive interview about him in the NYTimes on 9-11...where he laughed about his terrorist acts...
The left still supports terrorists or tries to hide them...look at this exchange:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/7436
"....Professor Glaberman accuses me of blurring the distinction between (legitimate) violence and (illegitimate) terrorism. But if I made an error, I would, to correct it, need from him some concrete clarifications about the actual Italian situation. Is it terror or merely violence when autonomists put a fire bomb in the gas tank of a Rome bus during rush hour? or burn stores and bomb buildings in Padua? or threaten to destroy the offices of "anti-proletarian" professors? or kill a policeman in Milan? And if the distinction between violence and terrorism can be made, does it apply equally to neofascists' acts done in the name of their revolution? For my part I think it is the autonomists, and not I, who have blurred the distinction. .."
The writer ridiculing the professor is Thomas Sheehan, who if I remember correctly, is of the left...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/7727
is the original NYBook review of his book on the Red Brigades of Italy...