I am confused. Am confused about how Iraqis and afghans defending
there land are called insurgents, terrorists. That’s what am confused
about. Why are they called such names? Such degrading names when all
there doing is protecting there homeland. They are bombed, shot at,
abused, jailed, raped, killed etc
Why because these imperialistic armies want to take if not already
taken their land.
What would stop a patriotic American or British person defending their
home? like Hollywood has made countless films and its in our history
yet when it comes to foreign lands and foreign people the fact that
they are foreign then it seems ok to go and invade their country.
Brave heart the film that had Mel Gibson in it portraying William
Wallace won numerous Oscar awards, and all William Wallace did was get
the English out of his country and so on.
John Smeaton the baggage handler from Glasgow airport did exactly the
same when those terrorists try to blow up Glasgow airport and I
applaud him for his bravery (am not taking it away from him, just
trying to make a point, and am not encouraging terrorists, I despise
them) yet his been given a Gallantry Medal from the queen for his act.
yet Iraqis and afghans are called insurgents, terrorists. And we are
made to fear such people because all their doing is protecting and
standing up for their people and country, yet their women get raped,
their kids get orphaned and their men killed when in fact all they
are, are just an Iraqi or afghan version of john Smeaton, a national
hero by the way.
neonmeatdreams
Yeah I can see your point and I've often thought the same thing. It can be a very fine line between freedom fighter and terrorist. During the fall of Berlin at the end of WW2 boys as young as 12 in the Hitler Youth fought to the death to protect Hitler and his Ideology. We would say that these were fanatics indoctrinated by the Nazis but they saw themselves as heroes and freedom fighters.
I think another point we have to take into account is the acts of some of these so-called insurgents. If they are attacking military targets then that could be called resistance however suicide bombings in crowded market places are hardly the acts of a freedom fighter.
BTW that picture has seriously disturbed me and I think we can all agree that for whatever reasons people think they are fighting for war is a pretty disgusting thing