By Harry Bathwater
Take a look at this video of O’Reilly on the David Letterman show.
About 2/3 of the way through O’Reilly refers to Britain’s MI6.
The problem for O’Reilly is that he thinks they are called M1-6 (M One 6)
The MI stands for "Military intelligence".
He's confusing Britain’s main freeway (Motorway) the M1 with the countries main intelligence gathering organization.
By the way. This is the definition of a "Freedom Fighter Vs Terrorist"
You are a Terrorist if you target civilians.
You are a Freedom Fighter if your targets are military.
I understand that by saying this I am calling the leaders of my own country, England, terrorists because they carpet bombed Dresden in Germany during WWII but I accept that. At that moment in history it needed to be done.
On the other hand, those who use “IEDs” to destroy military convoys are freedom fighters. I am simply talking semantics here. The people who plant IEDs are still bad people. The use of the term "Freedom Fighter" conjures up a romantic image of an underdog caught in a "David and Goliath" struggle. Not all freedom fighters are fighting for a just cause by any means.
Any act of war that targets civilians is an act of terrorism. However, if civilians are harmed because of their close proximity to a legitimate military target that is an unfortunate consequence of a war zone and not terrorism.
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