Nationalism is a) lame and b) responsible for a large part of all the misery and death of the 20th century.


Corporate Pig - I didn't read your whole post. I got as far as the part where you quoted the article as saying that the US government had appealed against the decision to grant asylum and then accused it of harbouring the terrorists. The government cannot interfere with the decision of the court. I believe that would be unconstitutional. So anyway, there is no hypocrisy on that point.

Also, as has been pointed out, there is a difference between fighting against military targets and targeting civilians. That is not to say that many who have done only the former haven't been labelled as terrorists, nor that some who have done the latter haven't been labelled as freedom fighters, but the distinction between the two acts is very important. Anyone who makes civilians their primary target in any given act is a terrorist in my book. People who never have are not (though that doesn't necessarily make them moral or legitimate, of course).