Why does the media insist on calling terrorists insurgents?
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Terrorists are anyone who uses terroristic tactics. Insurgents are anyone fighting an occupation. When someone does both they can be called either. The word terrorist seems to be over used in some quarters simply to elicit an emotional response.
And if I said something like fricking Negro scum about a black criminal, would I be banned?
Zephyr
And if I said something like fricking Negro scum about a black criminal, would I be banned?
Zephyr
The real question is why does the media and the administration insist on calling these people terrorists and insurgents when they are freedom fighters? They are fighting to get a foreign occupier out of their country. They are freedom fighters. Like the American rebels in the Revolutionary war and the Vietnamese in the Vietnam war, they want to get the occupier out at all costs. They are resisting an occupation. The only reason they are being called insurgents and terrorists is because the US is the unjust occupier here. If we were invaded by Russians, and I started killing collaborators with home-made bombs and a couple kids got killed by accident, would you blame it on me or would you blame it on the Russians? You'd blame it on the Russians.
TheBoyBlunder, Let me put it another way. I set a bomb targeting a Russian convoy. I'm just a civilian resisting. I'm doing my best to build a bomb. But the timer does not work properly because I'm not an export. I miss the convoy and schoolchildren die. Would I be held in contempt by my fellow Americans? Of course not. They would blame it on the Russians for causing me to take up arms.
I don't know who "The Media" is/are. But true journalist need not, and should not accept characterizations made by Bush's administration (or anyone else) as true--out of hand.
This is exactly what happened immediately after 9/11--and it was a mistake then, as it is now. Journalism requires a skeptical attitude--always.
Hopefully "The Media" have begun to take a responsible approach to their profession, instead of becoming lazy stooges and defacto mouthpieces.
This is exactly what happened immediately after 9/11--and it was a mistake then, as it is now. Journalism requires a skeptical attitude--always.
Hopefully "The Media" have begun to take a responsible approach to their profession, instead of becoming lazy stooges and defacto mouthpieces.
So Nitemare, what do you call someone who drops bombs and blows up an apartment full of school children?
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I would call that a horrible accident. We are not targeting apartment buildings full of school kids though, and the terrorists are targeting any and everyone including vans of children....sort of like the Palestinians blowing themselves up whereever there is alot of Israeli's. They are nothing more than terrorists that like to maim and destroy women and children.
They were specifically targeting the van full of children?? Really. Where did you read that?
The briefing the governor gave indicated that all three attacks were directed at the police stations and the children were passing by?
what difference does it make when the outcome is the same. What makes is morally justified to use the bombs in the first place
Right, you'd call it collateral damage. Same deal with the insurgents. The school van just happened to be driving by the police station.
Now, I'm not defending violence on anyone's part here, and certainly not the actions of these insurgents, or whatever you want to call them. At least I'm not being duplicitous by denouncing violence in order to effect political change when it's the insurgents who are using it, and glorifying it when the U.S. uses it. Violence is a blunt tool in anyone's hands. I deplore every instance of it.
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Do the semantics really matter? Children should never have to suffer a fate like that.
More on topic, the mujhadeen in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan were called freedom fighters and insurgents. I'm sure the Soviets called them something else. It all depends on who's doing the writing and whose side you were on.
Is it possible for freedom fighters or insurgents to also be terrorists? I think so.
If USA was invaded by liberals who wants to change the leadership, there would be freedom fighters, and some of them would employ terrorist tactics; To kill the liberal leaders and their families (let's call it accident).
If USA was invaded by liberals who wants to change the leadership, there would be freedom fighters, and some of them would employ terrorist tactics; To kill the liberal leaders and their families (let's call it accident).
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