From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/2/2006 3:23 AM
Terrorism, insurgency, or resistance?
Publication time: Today at 11:50 Djokhar time
The saying "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" is pretty well known. But what happened since the American President George W. Bush launched his so-called "war on terror" is that the abuse of the terminology for terrorist acts committed by his administration resulted in distorting the meaning of the word "terrorist" to be an all encompassing term for whatever is unfavorable to the U.S. and its policies, specially in the Middle East region.
The Iraqi Resistance fighters, are the U.S.'s "insurgent" or "terrorists", but they are freedom fighters to their fellow Iraqis who are suffering the merciless American occupation and their numbers are growing every day, said an editorial on Uruknet.Info.
In a letter written on November 18th, 1777 and entitled An English Plea For Peace With The American Colonies; William Pitt tells the House of Lords;
"My Lords, this ruinous and ignominious situation, where we cannot act with success, nor suffer with honour, calls upon us to remonstrate in the strongest and loudest language of truth, to rescue the ear of Majesty from the delusions which surround it. You cannot, I venture to say, you cannot conquer America.
"What is your present situation there? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much. You may swell every expense, and strain every effort, still more extravagantly; accumulate every assistance you can beg or borrow; traffic and barter with every pitiful German Prince, that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign country: your efforts are forever vain and impotent-doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely; for it irritates to an incurable resentment the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the sordid sons of rapine and of plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms! -Never! Never! Never!"
In their struggle to drive the invaders out of their country, Iraqis will never lay down their arms. It's for that very same reason mentioned in Pitt's letter that they'll never surrender.
Bush's campaign, supposedly aimed at rooting out terrorism in our world, which also included two unjustified wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, seems to have no defined end and it is this contextualization which makes it such a powerful weapon to achieve the Neo-Conservative agenda.
Looking at what has become of Iraq now, does the world seem to be a safer place? Or has the world become harder place for "terrorists" to obtain Weapons of Mass Delusion?
Source: AlJazeera
http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/10/02/5787.shtml
