limey wrote:
"Ophelia" wrote in message

"limey" wrote in message

I also post on a UK
newsgroup and was amazed by several responses: "We don't live in
London so why should we care?". Are people really that blasé at home
anymore?

There were two of them Dora and they have been (rightly) vilified. I
don't think anyone else was saying that

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No, thank goodness. Those remarks really mystified me but they soon got
their come-uppance from the UK posters. As you can see, people here in the
US are also full of sympathy. My rant is that these terrorists are
cowards - wear masks, or cover their faces with their headdresses, come out
of the woodwork, create death and mayhem and fade back into the crowd, with
no regard for the lives of their own citizens. Somehow, I feel we are all
punching at a balloon. If their beliefs are so strong, why don't they
fight like real men?
Sorry for the non-r.f.c. rant - just had to get it off my chest.

Dora



I believe in their culture their fighting style is considered honorable.
You are looking at this from a very ethnocentric point of view. These
people have completely different value systems and believe they are the
ones being victimized and they are just fighting back. I don't agree
with them, but they do see themselves as being heroic. When your
opponent feels that way it just makes the fight that much harder.

Remember the Red Coats vs. the Minutemen? The British said the rebel
colonists were fighting like savages because they wouldn't come out and
line up as tradition and culture had dictated. As it turned out, the
"cowardly" methods of fighting were more effective. Something to think
about...

Matt