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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
We understand why they are fighting. We are disagreeing with their tactics. Suicide bombs and taking innocent hostages were not employed by the Americans in the Revolutionary War. You can't compare attacking military targets to attacks on innocent civilians. You are broad-brushing false equivalence to justify terror.
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Correct, they didn't use suicide bombs. They did round up a group of Christian pacifists in Ohio, stole their communion wine to get wasted, and then proceeded to scalp all the men, women, and children. The women and young girls were raped before having their heads caved in with an axe.
And Washington didn't get the name "town destroyer" for nothing. He had troops go through Iroquois lands and destroy every village they came across. Burn and steal all the crops, kill women and children, and take some hostages for themselves (you can guess what the young women were used for) before executing them. The aftermath was a major famine that wiped out like half the Iroquois population in New York.
Those were innocent civilians. There are many more if you read up on the Revolutionary War. Many militias were not keen on those who wanted to stay neutral during the war and paid the price.