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Re: What's a freedom fighter?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 26 May 2004 00:27:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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At least, that’s a possibility of some of these
‘insurgents’. Maybe they think of themselves a ‘freedom fighters’.
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I know, I know. I promised myself I’d try to stay away from .debate.
But this freedom fighter thing got me thinking. What’s a freedom
fighter? Who gets to decide? Were the IRA ever called freedom fighters?
How are they generally perceived in Canada and Europe? A force for good,
or a villianous gang?
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Congratulations!
You’ve just managed to sum up nearly all the wars: we’re right, the enemy is
wrong. We’re brave, the enemy is villanous. We’ll win, the enemy will lose.
We think all this, the enemy... does too. So why is it he’s the enemy, again?
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The problem with that theory denunciation is that, every once in a while, there
IS a good guy bad guy war...
And the problem wht THAT theory denunciation is that, “every once in a while”
isn’t very often, and it’s hard to tell (from the inside) if you’re in one of
those times or not...
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| (...) Congratulations! You've just managed to sum up nearly all the wars: we're right, the enemy is wrong. We're brave, the enemy is villanous. We'll win, the enemy will lose. We think all this, the enemy... does too. So why is it he's the enemy, (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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