Is one mans terrorist really another mans freedom fighter???

Question

and no the last question was not a setup on defending the insergents in iraq i perosnally thing we should not be fighting a politically correct war in iraq and we should do like Israel and fight a real war.......but i digress..... who is right the terroist or the on who acuses the terrorist as being "evil"

Answer 1

The Term "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" is very true. Take for example HAMAS, they are hated by the Jews. people in Palestine love them because they fight for land that was lost to the Jews. In turn Jews see them much as the White man seen the American Indian. We now know that what was done to the American Indian was wrong. 200 years from now history may record HAMAS as the Indians of this era.

Answer 2

In today's world, a terrorist is a hero to many people. There were those on the planet who cheered when bin Laden attacked the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and that plane load of people who went down in Pennsylvania headed for Washington D.C. Of course, to some they are called freedom fighters, even hero's. Whatever.

But, as someone who lives in N.Y., I can tell you and whoever is reading this...I will never give anyone the right to take my life. NEVER.

The security of the United States is non-negotiable.

Anyone can put any labels on anyone they want and call them anything they choose It has a much weight as a balloon in a hurricane when it comes to the security of this country.

If you go onto amw.com, you will find Usama bin Laden is a fugitive, not a freedom fighter. Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter. Bin Laden is garbage.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. A freedom fighter has a moral guide. He fights for something he sees is right. This same "right" leads him to distinguish between warfare and terrorism. He will not wage war on civilians. Now, some civilians might be collateral damage occasionally, but he never targets them. A Terrorist has only hatred. This is his guide. This hatred leads him to strike babies, women, elderly, etc., all to achieve his twisted agenda. Right now, the terrorists have an agenda to get the Americans and Jews out of the middle east. And while this may sound like a freedom fighter to your average liberal, this is only because he doesn't consider how the terrorist goes about trying to remove them. It is never justified to wage war on civilians. Freedom fighters know that. In fact, this is one of the principles they are fighting for. A terrorist doesn't know this, he knows only hate and radicalism.

Answer 4

Yes, according to FEMA our founding fathers were terrorists because they rebelled against the rule of the King. To me those men were freedom fighters. In more modern times many braindead republicans think that George Bush is a freedom Fighter interested in liberating the people of the middle east. To me Bush is a terrorist whose administration carried out 9/11 to mobilize the power of the US military for the economic domination of the middle east.

Answer 5

A terrorist is someone who targets civilians...a soldier is someone who aims for military targets...so although I'm sure many Arabs and Muslims view the terrorists as freedom fighters...it doesn't matter...they are still murderers and thugs.

True, sometimes civilians get harmed or even killed during a military attack..this is most unfortunate, and I know the US for one takes great pains to avoid this...but the targets are still military.

Answer 6

No. A freedom fighter would attack military targets. Terrorists go after civilians. Iraq had both, but lately it has been all terrorists as all the targets have been Iraqi civilians.

Answer 7

this is no longer who you purpose inclusive of your assaults, yet what you're scuffling with for that concerns. A terrorist is a individual who makes use of shock as a tactic, and no count if that's for the sake of freedom, they may well be considered a freedom fighter as properly. Therefor, a individual or team could properly be one, the two, or neither. One does no longer mean the different. on a similar time as concentrated on civilians isn't proper, there's a controversy (reckoning on the situation, of path) that they are component to the device that helps the enemy. The Allies and Axis the two understood this for the period of WWII and usually bombed thoroughly civilian aims. Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't protection rigidity aims, and yet it exchange into those bombs which ended the conflict. In killing those harmless human beings, we scared an entire united states into surrendering. this may well be argued as being terrorism, yet it created freedom. A non-protection rigidity terrorist who fought oppression exchange into guy Fawkes. on a similar time as his purpose exchange into no longer precisely mothers and infants, he did seek for to kill non-protection rigidity the Aristocracy Terrorists interior the middle East do no longer combat for freedom, they try for religious dominance and team spirit. The procedures they use cause them to terrorists, yet their time table makes them oppressors. Mandela could have been a terrorist, yet he helped end the oppression of the black majority in South Africa. of course, the human beings he freed have been keen to forgive his procedures, they did % him president. in specific situations shady procedures are the only thank you to end your purpose, yet while your reason is freedom, justice, and finally peace, i won't condemn it.

Answer 8

Freedom Fighters never kill civilians who want normal lives deliberately. The only people of their own who they'd kill are traitors who actively get involved. Those who claim to be freedom fighters but then resort to killing civlians are not freedom fighters, they are traitors to the cause.
Terrorists kill anyone they can get...so that means for them its open season on all civilians as well as Military. Though you would notice that since Military fight back, the terrorists prefer to kill civilians.

Matt S...the American Indians never went so far as to deliberately murder civilians...they (the Indians) never even had the concept of civilians back then. HAMAS deliberately kills civilians and they even state that all Israel must be wiped out (and I doubt even they are so stupid as to not have heard of the Geneva Conventions, they invoke those for their captured guys)...sorry I will have to disagree with you there.

Answer 9

I believe that if there were some sort of aliens who came and visited earth they would be able to pic up a few traits that are unique to terrorists...

terrorists have ideology of course. but their driving mechanism is based on disturbing the peace of civilians.

this differs significantly from non-terrorists who's driving mechanism for their ideology is militant and military targets and civilian infrastructure and casualties are a byproduct of what comes in the middle...

Answer 10

The terrorist are evil. Any group that targets innocent people for senseless slaughter in the name of a misconstrued reading of the Koran is a terrorist.