Re: Brent Scowcroft Blasts W's NeoCon Based Foreign Poilcy


"Mickey" <mickeys@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> James <gentryIII@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:45:13 -0500, Mickey <mickeys@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>Winston Castro <at@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Please pardon my ignorance, but that makes perfect sense now.I
> >>>even remember seeing part of that movie on cable.
> >>>
> >>> Gibson was a colonial-era American farmer, turned
> >>>terrorist/freedom-figher, who proceeded to kick General Charles
> >>>Cornwallis' arse.
> >>>
> >>
> >>I know it's very trendy among the East Coast literati to refer to
> >>terrorists as "freedom fighters", but calling the American fighters
during
> >>the revolutionary war "terrorists" is inaccurate and offensive.
> >>
> >>Revolutionary soldiers were NOT blowing up women and children. They were
NOT
> >>engaging in indiscriminate slaughter. They were guerrilla fighters, but
> >>they were not terrorists.
> >>
> >>The "freedom" that today's terrorists as fighting for is the freedom to
> >>slaughter every non-Muslim on the planet and usher in a new Golden Age
of
> >>Islam.
> >>
> >>So you'll have to forgive me if I completely dismiss the repulsive
attempt
> >>to draw some kind of moral equivalence between Muhammad Atta and Paul
> >>Revere.
> >
> >Very well stated, Mickey. You echo my thoughts on this.
>
> Thanks. ;-)


Wow, what an accomplishment - hymns from the converted. I could do the same
shouting into a canyon. And I'd achieve about as much.

Paul


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