Well, then, people are using the wrong term, including me.

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Tom Brosz — 7/18/2004 6:28:32 AM (archived)

I think I started out using "guerillas" and "terrorists." I was trying to distinguish between non-conventional fighters who attacked armed military targets (the former) and those who attacked civilians (the latter.)

While someone setting a bomb under a road to blow up a military convoy is a bastard who badly needs killing, it is still a legitimate method of attacking an active military target. I do not label such action "terrorism." Blowing up a school bus this way would be terrorism.

Don't know why I started using "insurgent." Maybe I got tired of trying to remember how to spell "guerilla."

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Measure of the quagmire: Philipines pullout - Donald - 7/14/2004 1:57:03 AM
- re: Measure of the quagmire - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2004 5:15:11 AM
- You can't have it both ways. - Tom Brosz - 7/14/2004 3:37:26 AM
  - Part of Cheney/Bush's vaunted "coalition", wasn't it. - Bowser - 7/14/2004 4:44:19 AM
  - Criminy - Donald - 7/14/2004 3:54:09 AM
    - What would you have us do? - McFly - 7/14/2004 3:59:56 PM
      - What we have to do........ - Publius - 7/14/2004 4:31:10 PM
        
        Insurgents - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2004 6:47:18 AM
        
        Don't be deterred - FrankC - 7/15/2004 4:21:24 PM
        
        Ditto - Tony - 7/15/2004 7:25:39 PM
        
        "apparently I'm boring people" - McFly - 7/15/2004 12:42:58 PM
        
        Insurgents - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2004 6:47:09 AM
        
        By definition Insurgents require popular support, or they are not insurgents........... - Publius - 7/17/2004 9:30:50 PM
        
        Well, then, people are using the wrong term, including me. - Tom Brosz - 7/18/2004 6:28:32 AM
        
        Insurgents - Lindy - 7/14/2004 5:20:05 PM
    - One of our better allies? - FrankC - 7/14/2004 4:03:03 AM
      - re: One of our better allies? - Chris Vancil - 7/14/2004 9:30:08 AM
      - Typical Yankee Arrogance - Donald - 7/14/2004 4:20:19 AM
        
        Filipinos join Axis of Weasels! - phil - 7/14/2004 5:09:24 PM
        
        re: typical smarminess - FrankC - 7/14/2004 3:35:12 PM

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