• Microw@lemm.ee
        51·
        2 months ago

        The Taliban definitely still use violence to achieve their aims. It’s state terrorism or oppression now.

      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
        32·
        2 months ago

        Right, my comment was more about, once a terrorist always a terrorist, like once your murder someone, your forever a murderer instead of stopping being a murderer cause you haven’t killed in a decade,

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          well the taliban weren’t terrorists until they stopped fighting the soviets. one of the 80’s Bond films is even dedicated to “the brave freedom fighters of Afghanistan”. contrary to doing a single murder, doing many for political gain turns your status from objective to subjective.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        Plus:

        • Every terrorist believes their cause is just and they’re freedom fighters.

        • Every victor gets to write the history books… Hence why the objectively-terrorist actions of bombing Dresden, Berlin, 90+ Japanese cities + the nukes, etc. during WWII, wasn’t defined as terrorism but doing what needed to be done for the greater good.

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      76·
      2 months ago

      American “revolutionaries”, separating from the british empire to form their own country would be, by today’s standards, terrorists.

      America funded bin laden during the soviet invasion and saw him as a freedom fighter. Once he turned on the USA he was seen as a terrorist.

      Its all perspective and propaganda