He has worked the last 2 meets with us, His wife & him travel around the world she has some big pension from Exxon or some shit so they got money. She loves horse racing so they hit different cities and live there for awhile and she follows the horses. He does things so he doesn't get bored. Anyway he comes by and hangs out during the off season a lot and we all talk news & politics and what not. Well today he made the statement that America will never defeat terrorism. Which is totally correct on. You can't defeat an idea or act. The entire war on terror is just like every other little thing America has declared war on. But were we differed is that I said that terrorist don't see themselves as committing an act of terror they seem themselves as rebels in a way. Which he back peddled and said they know what they're doing is wrong and what not. Then I asked him if he felt the Boston Tea Party was an act of Terror. Which he said no which kind of shocked me. He said it was committed by British against british it was a thumbing of the nose. I feel it was an act of terror in a way I'm just surprised he didn't. Your thoughts?
Yea, I think the tea-party was rebellion, not terrorism. No one was killed, they didnt dress as indians to scare anyone, just to conceal (SP?) themselves. The Missouri Militia, in the Civil War (and after.... "Lee surrendered I didnt" and all that) was more like terrorism. Raiding towns, killing and pillaging and all.
I brought up the tea party as well as the civil war as acts of terror Years ago. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. If you do not agree with a terrorist using his very basic tactics then supply him with an air force. Anti ballistic missiles whatever he needs to fight conventionally. That’s my opinion. However on the same note I also take the position that it is truly absurd to expect the U.S. to not take off the gloves when confronted with terrorist tactics. Special microwave weapons. Cluster bombs. Interrogation. Fuck yeah use all that shit and don't think twice about it as long as the enemy does. I said all along that this conflict does not in any way fall under the umbrella of the Geneva Convention.
