http://www.1913intel.com/2008/06/05/hizbullahs-power-play/ International Conflict, Western World Threats and Geopolitical Intelligence Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:42:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.1913intel.com/2008/06/05/hizbullahs-power-play/#comment-2295 JLRichardson Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:56:54 +0000 http://www.1913intel.com/?p=7944#comment-2295 This is a strange but interesting article. Miss Glick refers to how the French dealt with the "insurgencies" in Viet Nam and Algeria during the period they were under French Imperial rule. The article is about how to deal with insurgencies. Of course France lost both battles because the Vietnamese and the Algerians wanted to be FREE. This brings to mind the question of just what would one call the French resistance to Nazi German rule in WWII. Were the French just a bunch of unruly unprincipled terrorist "insurgents" OR were they freedom fighters. It all depends on just what side of the coin one is looking at. In Judea 2000 years ago the Romans saw the Jews as just a bunch of Zealot terrorist insurgents who refused to accept Imperial rule which the Romans thought was a very good idea. The Jews paid a terrible price for their insurgency. Now they see the Palestinians in exactly the same way the Romans saw them. In Iraq America today faces what it calls an insurgency but it is really the Iraqi's desire to be free of foreign rule. To the Iraqis fighting the American occupation is fighting for freedom. In the end the fight for freedom will almost always win out. America does not have the legions that Rome possessed nor the mindset to be as savagely cruel. Rome totally destroyed Judea and crucified thousands of Jews for refusing to accept Western Civilization. This is a strange but interesting article. Miss Glick refers to how the French dealt with the “insurgencies” in Viet Nam and Algeria during the period they were under French Imperial rule. The article is about how to deal with insurgencies. Of course France lost both battles because the Vietnamese and the Algerians wanted to be FREE.
This brings to mind the question of just what would one call the French resistance to Nazi German rule in WWII. Were the French just a bunch of unruly unprincipled terrorist “insurgents” OR were they freedom fighters. It all depends on just what side of the coin one is looking at.
In Judea 2000 years ago the Romans saw the Jews as just a bunch of Zealot terrorist insurgents who refused to accept Imperial rule which the Romans thought was a very good idea.
The Jews paid a terrible price for their insurgency. Now they see the Palestinians in exactly the same way the Romans saw them.
In Iraq America today faces what it calls an insurgency but it is really the Iraqi’s desire to be free of foreign rule. To the Iraqis fighting the American occupation is fighting for freedom. In the end the fight for freedom will almost always win out. America does not have the legions that Rome possessed nor the mindset to be as savagely cruel. Rome totally destroyed Judea and crucified thousands of Jews for refusing to accept Western Civilization.

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