-- On 14 Aug 2001, at 9:40, Trei, Peter wrote:
Another example: Kurds striving to establish Kurdistan are regarded by the US as either freedom fighters or terrorists, depending which side of the Turkish/Iraqi border they are on.
One of the reasons why Bush ditched the small arms treaty is that these days freedom fighters tend to outnumber "terrorists" -- the tide of revolution is mostly flowing in the direction the US finds quite comfortable. The largest beneficiary of the small arms treaty would have been Sudan, a nation on the UN human rights committee that vociferously condemns human rights violations by the US -- also a country with widespread chattel slavery for inferior races. US government policy is not all that bad compared with the mainstream outside the US. Many governments and newspapers take the position that there are no freedom fighters -- that all use of foce against any government, however bad that government may be, is terrorism. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG hLaArkke4by+tT5CmnMftYReVXllaaccOEB2k0ZV 4CnNu7kgbHY1gDldKRLxE324WBT7MxOTaSDtWSMA0