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From: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Frenchmen getting bombed, why them?
Message-ID: <1557@watdragon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 11:56:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 11:56:00 1986
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Reply-To: brkirby@watdragon.UUCP (Bruce Kirby)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1978@ihlpa.UUCP> gadfly@ihlpa.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
>--
>> .... Still I have to
>> question why a people opposing a brutal occupation are terrorists,
>> when World War II fighters in the French Resistance were considered
>> heroes. The double standard makes me sick. 
>
>Double standard???  Even if there were a parallel between occupied
>France and the mid-East situation, the French underground was not in
>the habit of kidnapping, shooting, or blowing up innocent civilians.
>They spent most of their venom--and ammo--on Nazis and collaborators.
>A true "people opposing a brutal occupation" will concentrate on
>harrassing the occupiers.  And thus is the lie exposed.

The situation in the mid-East isn't all that different from France in WWII.
As far as the terrorists are concerned, they are fighting a group that has
taken their homeland.  They do this by striking at the armies and civilians
(read - collaborators) of their enemies. 

	Bruce Kirby
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	I mean...you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn
	women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug?
		- A. Guthrie
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