LET'S PLAY THE NAME GAME!

There's a lot of chatter in the news lately about militants, insurgents, rebels and terrorists. Now the big news agencies have been using those terms all willy nilly, so I'm gonna set you all straight with a series of definitions for this screwed up age.

• If you make speeches calling for the downfall of a government or rival nation but don't do anything about it, then you are a RADICAL.
• If you make speeches calling for the death of people that result in the deaths of people but you don't get your own hands dirty with the actual killing, then you are a MILITANT.
• If you are hiding in the hills waiting to attack a legitimate military target, on behalf of a legitimate cause, for a legitimate military objective, then you are a GUERILLA.
• If you are waiting in the hills waiting to attack and rob any target you can get, then you are a BANDIT.
• If you are trying to oust an oppressive regime, or hostile occupying power so you can create a democracy based on individual liberty and the rule of law, then you are a REBEL.
• If you are trying to oust a regime or occupying power so you can curry favour with who you think will be the next dictator, then you are a FASCIST.
• If you kill innocent civilians in the name of an impossible cause, but your real reason is to terrify people into accepting your brutal & sadistic worldview, then you are a TERRORIST.
• If you think MILITANTS, BANDITS, FASCISTS, & TERRORISTS are actually REBELS for the sole reason that they are anti-American/anti-western, then you are an IDIOT.