re: #22 John Hughes

If the Taliban are terrorists then why weren’t the American revolutionaries?

“Terrorist” doesn’t mean “bad person”, it’s a politico/military strategy. An evil one, but there’s a better case for describing the US as terrorists than the Taliban in recent years. (*)

Oh god am I going to get piled on for this one.

(* Where by recent I mean in the last 20 years — sorry any young people around, that’s how is old farts count)

Nope. I have always thought of George Washington as a successful warlord, and Mohamed Aidid as an unsuccessful Washington.