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Originally posted by Penske_Account
He wasn't a leader. He was a terrorist. Do you remember the 70s? Marcos never hijacked planes to make symbolic points.Marcos never sent armed terrorists into the Olmpic village to kill another nation's athletes. Marcos never blew up busloads of children of his political enemies.
I am not arguing that Marcos was a great democratic leader. But he was a leader. Arafat was a terrorist, who did all of the above, and the ant-semites in Weurope and the UN used the profile he gained from murder and hijacking to promote him to leader.
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The fact that he was a leader doesn't mean he wasn't a terrorist. Savimbi was both. So was Idi Amin.
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Why can't you bring yourself to denounce him without qualification?
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Why do you think I'm definding him? Are you that thick? I'm saying the world is an unpleasant place, and we have to deal with it. And sometimes flowers grow from manure.
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If bin Laden requested free (unfettered by threat of arrest or other imprisonment) passage into NYC to speak at the UN on the theory that he is the leader of a certain groups of Arab muslims would you argue that he should get it? What if Hamas told the UN he was its (and by extension the Palis) designated rep to the UN? Should he be up for a Nobel Peace Prise for offering some type of cease fire or wahtever that was he offered in one of his tapes last year?
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No to all of the above. Have you encountered anyone who feels differently?
