James Blunt On Terrorists

[Quangoid]

Blunt was a captain in the Life Guards, a regiment of the Household Cavalry, and worked as an armoured reconnaissance officer in the Nato deployment in Kosovo on the Macedonian/Yugoslavian border in 1999. However, his six years’ military experience, during which he was at the head of a column of 30,000 men, still leaves him at a loss when it comes to countering terrorist attacks.

‘I don’t see them as terrorists,’ he says calmly. ‘The notion of a terrorist, in their mind, implies some kind of soldierly courage, whereas I see only cowards, petty criminals, on the whole, who want infamy by acting out cowardly acts of murder. I see no courage in killing children at an Ariana Grande concert. It’s abhorrent.'

What refreshing, coherrent, soothing wise true words he speaks.

We the media and the world should stop the glamourisation of these cowards by not calling them terrorists.

I too will stop calling them the "T" word and now refer to them as treacherous cowardly vermin murderers!

Source,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-4629142/James-Blunt-doesn-t-care-critics-say.html

[youngmafbog]

Something I have been doing for some time.

[murraymints]

that is what they are..murdering criminals and that ought not be tempered by any kind of religous motivation

[Old_Geezer]

Have to say that his definition of terrorist is somewhat more respectful than mine. I think the cowardly criminal description is also part of the terrorist grouping. No reason to not use the word for them. Terrorists cause terror regardless whether they plan military style operations or not.

[ToraToraTora]

Bang on Mr Blunt.

[TWR]

Not "T" In my opinion Quan but scum.

[woofgang]

so one has to wonder who he does see as terrorists?

[ummmm]

My thoughts exactly, Woof.

[naomi24]

Mine too.

[Quangoid]

No maybe i was slightly misunderstood.

I and everyone still see them as terrorists but will not glorify them by taking their soap box and high horse from under them and calling them cowardly murdering scumbags and not GLOBAL TERRORISTS which is giving them a moniker that others see as stripes.

If the media could do this too that would a step in taking them down a peg or two.

[douglas9401]

I think that's what the 'so called' that the BBC uses when mentioning islamic state is partly about.

[Quangoid]

That's a good step in the right direction.

[woofgang]

“I don’t see them as terrorists”
How can that be misunderstood?