Posted on 05/13/2006 7:55:30 AM PDT by maui_hawaii
>>The end results can be the same, but the ideology and reasoning behind it is different with each extremist movement.
So how do you define terrorism? By ideology or by the end results? Killing innocent people is not terrorism if it's agaisnt communism, right?
How one defines 'terrorism' is a question thats been around for a very long time.
None the less innocent people should not be attacked.
I'm sorry, but saying someone else is full of crap when you wrote some ill-informed halfwit nonsense on a non-existant forced interracial marriage scheme that only even less-informed people at Free Republic would believe is the height of full-of-crapiness.
At least some people have a sense of clarity and ideological consistancy. It was only a generation ago that some were advocating on behalf of mohammedans against those oh so evil communists. Afterall they were spunky religious do gooders rebelling against Soviet atheist tyranny. Of course remind me again how that worked out.
The only ill informed person here is you. You might be better served reading a book rather than surfing the internet...
Sometimes tough decisions such as this need to be made, as we find ourselves faced with a choice of supporting one evil or another when thoese two are in opposition. President Reagan had the wisdom to prop up Hussein in the 1980's to blunt the reach aof the Ayatollahs. Setting them up to bea each other to a pulp was in our best interests, even if we would have otherwise shunned a thug like Hussein.
Let's look at the present; al Qaeda affiliated thugs vs. Communist China. Are we better off aiding China crush their dissident/separatist problem, or stand aside and let them have to deal with it on their own? I certainly would never advocate aiding and abetting the Uighurs, but at the same time I see no reason to actively hinder them either.
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