Where we differ with Americans

"Arab News" SAUDI ARABIA'S FIRST ENGLISH DAILY ^ | 6-20-02 | Jamal Khashoggi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, ARAB NEWS, Arab News

[bybybill]

I pretty sure that the King David hotel was where the officers that worked at the British headquarters and their families lived.The article said that your freedom fighter might be somebodys terrorist. All I am pointing out is that that phenomenon has happened before. Funny, nobody wants to talk about that.

[spitz]

Terrorist are in the business of intimidating and coercing societies and governments for ideological or political reasons. The selection of targets, at least in my view, is not the measure to define a terrorist. A terrorist could push his cause by attacking military targets only, this is of course a much harder prospect than attacking civilians.

No, I have not seen the Patriot. It's just a movie.

[sofaman]

Please enlighten me, wise one, on what I was doing this obfuscating? Tell you this, I stopped obfuscating in public when you were still in short pants.

You stopped being funny then too.

Look up the word in a dictionary, practice spelling it a few times, try using it in context, scroll up & be enlightened.

[bybybill]

If you can`t answer the obvious double standard, I guess you will agree that it exists.

[sofaman]

bill...lay off the mushrooms, pal. Try to focus.

[bybybill]

can`t answer, can you? Hehehehehehehehehehehehe

[sofaman]

Don't know what the hell you're talking about, man!

Your first comment was intentionally misleading and blatantly untrue. It's an old and tired argument. It's the same old tired attempt to assign moral equivalence. It doesn't wash anymore. There is no excuse for what these Arabs are doing.

And your running interference for them and then denying that you do just emphasizes your own bias.

Suggestion....go to sleep. Start again in the morning. You're embarrassing yourself.

[sofaman]

see ya

[happygrl]

Well, I wish they had told us this before. Think of the American lives in the Gulf War it would have saved.

What will it take for our government to understand that the Saudis are the enemy ?

[Restorer]

Terrorist are in the business of intimidating and coercing societies and governments for ideological or political reasons.

This is at least as good a definition of warfare in general as it is of terrorism. It is a rewording of Clausewitz's "Politics by other means."

I assume you make consider some forms of resistance movements and guerrilla warfare to be legitimate and not terroristic. Where do you draw this line? I'm really interested.