ERIC ON ... THE CAUSES OF TERRORISM

The original post is in italics and my reply is in normal type.

I find nothing redeeming in terrorism and nothing to be admired or justified in driving people to acts of terrorism. In the Middle East, all the extremists should be exposed for what they are. power mad, self serving enemies of peace.
 
That's a lovely simplistic western point of view, L******e.
 
But when you see the hypocrisy of the west in fêting terrorists like Begin, Mandela and Adams - the declaration by the b liar that "we will never negotiate with terrorists" having recently made an accord with Gerry Adams, then you can start to see the point that other people see - that in the long run the terrorists always triumph.
 
And when you see the west loudly proclaiming the benefits of democracy, then immediately condemming the Palestinians for democratically voting into power a government they don't like, so they immediately set out to destabilise it, that's even MORE western hypocrisy.
 
And then you get the Zionists having based the foundation of their "state" on terrorism explosion and murder then setting out to criticise others, then that's yet more.
 
And when you have a poor farmer whose property and livelihood have been destroyed, and his wife and children killed, what does he have left? You might be intellectual and intelligent and able to make your point of view known with a pen or with a keyboard, but many others don't have your skills. All they have to offer is themselves, and whether it's chaining themselves to railings outside Faslane or strapping a bomb to their waists and going off in search of the people who murdered their families and destroyed their livelihoods, that's the best they can do. And there's nothing self-serving or power mad about it.
 
Given the choice, most people would rather live in peace, but they are being pushed to the extremes. And for every innocent civilian who dies in Iraq or Afghanistan or Palestine at the hands of the invader / aggressor / occupier, then it just creates 20 new enemies who are driven to despair. What would YOU do if your child was shot in the streets by a soldier of an invading army?
 
It's high time people in the west, instead of hiding their heads in the sand, woke up and accepted responsibility for what they have done
 
And none of this is new. The French resistance had a slogan "for each one of us that you killed, another ten will rise up in our place". That was considered heroic at the time. Yet they were doing the same job in France that the freedom fighters are doing in Iraq and the Taliban are doing in Afghanistan. What's the difference?
 
And what about Churchill's "we shall fight them in the streets?" Who were the "we" he was referring to? The "we" was "us", or our parents, or our grandparents. In his memoirs, Churchill records an incident when he was asked "what instructions would you give to our civilian population if the Germans invaded?" He replied "I would tell them that they could always take one with them". That's a direct call to suicide attacks, and doesn't differ in any way from the call to arms in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.
 
And as for the claims of young fighters on the streets, you might have heard Al Stewarts "Road to Moscow" with "the old men and children (the Germans) send out to face us, we just mow them down" and you might have seen "The Bunker" (or whatever the English translation was) where you see a regiment of young girls and boys going off to fight the Russians in the streets of Berlin.
 
And then you look at "Dad's Army" where you see the British version of "old men and children" about to take to the streets to defend their country from bombs guns and tanks armed with nothing but broom handles and butchers' knives. Now there's a suicide squad for you, but I bet you laughed at that.
 
I just totally despair of the straw vision through which the west is watching the world.

One of the biggest problems with most conflicts is what to do with the 'freedom fighters' when conflict is resolved
 
Well, if they all had jobs and livelihoods and professions to follow, they'd be too busy making a living to worry about fighting. Something else the west has overlooked. I never did understand the logic shown by the Zionists of destroying factories and olive groves. Haven't they heard of the proverb "the devil makes work for idle hands"?

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