Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 'why are the RAF men who fire bombed Dresden and > Hamburg considered heroes while the 7/7 bombers > are considered terrorists?' > > You are not comparing like for like there. The > contexts are entirely different and context is > extremely important. The former an act of all out > war between nations throwing everything at each > other. The latter, an act in isolation. A better > comparison would be with any battle in Vietnam. > > Terrorism is so called because it's the method of > groups without armies, designed to strike > disproportionate fear, hence the term, and also > hence why it never succeeds as a method in itself. > So an appropriate use of the word for the 7/7 > bombers. Without so called terrorists the Irish republic wouldn't exist now.