RES: Cowardice and Courage

[Alexandre Fenelon]

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

-I don´t want to offend anyone, just ponting to the fact that suicide
-attacks are a reasonable military alternative when you are totally
-outgunned, and people from Japan know this. There is no cowardice
-in doing this, quite the opposite. And I agree with you, there is
-a diference between Japanese suicide pilots and 9/11 terrorists.
-While the former attacked military targets of a country against whom
-they were at war, the latter attacked civilian targets withouth
-being at war. From this point, the Iraqi suicide bombers are closer
-to japanese kamikazes than to 9/11 terrorists.

			Alexandre