Cowardice and Courage

[suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp]

> the comment from an official from the japanese foreign affairs ministry
> tonight on tv: they are using _terrorist_ tactics (psychological
>
> jch
>
> -Yes, and this came from a country who pionereed the use of suicide
> -attacks as the last resort in a lost war (which was btw, a very
> -rational strategy because kamikaze pilots would be killed anyway
> -if sent on conventional attack missions, but withouth inflicting
> -any damage on the enemy). From my point, suicide attacks are
> -reasonable, from a military point of view, if you are totally
> -outgunned in the battlefield.
>
> 							Alexandre

the point being using "terrorist" to qualify what iraqi are doing is 
1)reversing the meaning of the word: the us is using terror on the 
iraqi people not the opposite 2)identifying the iraqi to the 9.11 
terrorists.

i am surprised not to have noticed any analogy between the sand storms 
and the "kamikaze" in the jp media. not the kamikaze you mention but 
the original one: the wind of gods that blew the mongol fleet away back 
in... ummm the 13th century ? (need to check my history  books). the 
japanese were pretty pissed when the 9.11 teams were called kamikaze 
(refering to the jp suicide pilots) by the western media, i thought 
that was an opportunity to correct the interpretation of the word...

jch