War on Terror
Simon Wilcox
essuu at ourshack.com
Thu Nov 2 15:34:43 GMT 2006
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Simon Cozens wrote:
> Ian McDonald-ONLINE:
> > ... But I usually think of it as a deliberate attack on a non-military
> > target aiming to create terror for a political end.
>
> That'd make Nelson Mandela in his ANC days a terrorist. Terrorists are
> generally not considered terrorists any more once they succeed...
Mandela was undoubtedly a terrorist but as is often said, one man's
terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
And as you note, he won.
Simon.
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"History is written by the victors" - Winston Churchill.
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