Re: FN-FORUM: OT - was Save Money - US-UK chat

date posted 22nd June 2003 14:55

>>>> Mind you, a Brit has to be a little careful in some of the Boston bars.
>>>> There's the Paul Revere factor (a good natured roast these days) but also
>>>> more seriously in the Irish ones there can be certain perceptions about the
>>>> UK and Northern Ireland and people who see the IRA as freedom fighters. I
>>>> never had a problem but it did occur to me that maybe I should be a little
>>>> cautious.
>>>>
>>> Can we get onto the support of terrorism by the USA now ? :-)
>>>
>> You mean the collection box on the bar counter top?
>>
> That's just a tiny drop in the ocean of support, whether explicit or implicit,
> and by both individuals and the state.....
>
Ah yes - support for the contras, Latin American death squads, various
despotic but foreign policy friendly regimes and state terrorism directly or
indirectly through proxy states such as Israel. One man's freedom fighter is
another's terrorist. Duncan - you're a muesli eating saddle wearing
Grauniad/Sindy reader like me, right?


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