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Hamish
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Of course, the word ?violence? is never used with reference to anyone but the bad guys . For us it is ?strikes? or ?response? or something like ?Rebel strongholds were raided.? The words ?positions? and ?bases? are used a lot by newsreaders, so much more military sounding than ?houses?, or worse, ?homes?.

I mean a ?home?, sounds like it might have people in it. And ?targets in Gaza? sound provocative, like they should be attacked, like a dart board should have darts thrown at it.

Today... ?Military action was taken against suspected insurgents??.. This covers all events from UN peacekeepers struggling in Bosnia, through to the Nazis levelling Guernica.

Blair was talking about Fallujah, ?..when the Americans went in?.?. That is like ?I went in ..to the quiet pub.?

After the Russians intervened in trouble-spots in Afghanistan, I heard an English language news report from Moscow, ?Terrorists attacked a convoy outside Kabul?.?. How dare they say that? These were not ?terrorists?. They were ?freedom fighters!? They only became terrorists later, when they fought us!

I wonder what the Romans thought???Members of the Senate, the fundamentalist Boudicea has been threatening the provisional administration in Londinium again. And she is still armed with those ballistae we gave her, to fight the Picts for us?.?
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'Hamish ' is an antiwar writer socialist- scientist and musician living in Scotland.
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