| akuma587 said: Do I really need a link to claim that some people living in the Middle East during the Gulf War were not happy we intervened at that some Americans took offense to that? But I still maintain my claim that it is a little bit hypocritical of us to take such an unsympathetic view towards terrorists when many of the Founders of our country were actually terrorists.
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Freedom fighters. Maybe this is a semantic argument but I don't think so. I wouldn't call Robert E. Lee a terrorist either. I'm not trying to make an argument for some "just cause" or moral certitude. I'm just saying there's a difference between war, a popular uprising and Timothy McVeigh. Not that I'm disagreeing with you, akuma587, if your designation of (some of?) the Founding Fathers as terrorists was meant to frame them in a notional context that seems to turn the neocon view back on itself.
In other news, Gallup has Obama back at 50%, McCain at 43%. The road to 270 Electoral Votes seems increasingly more likely to go Obama's way then McCain's way.
