Re: OT: Military Ranks/Computers : WAS Re: newbie question on cobol syntax

On 30 Apr 2007 10:34:00 -0700, Alistair
<alistair@ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote:

><blood boiling mode>
>
>And I presume that the good-ole US of A has not ever nor does it now
>sponsor terrorism? Need I remind you of arms to Iran or of the
>Contras? How about the continued support for the IRA and the
>inconsistent support for the NI peace process ?
>
></blood boiling mode>

You know that virtually every politician defines "terrorism" as what
the other guys do.    Look at all the two-bit dictators who call their
revolutionaries by that "in" term now.

In the first half of the U.S.'s history, they almost always sided with
the "freedom fighters" - the revolutionaries.    The last half, the
U.S. was a big guy, and has sided with the establishment, unless that
revolution was against an established enemy.