My forefathers quit standing in line and shooting volley after volley at the british. They took cover and picked the brits off while the brits were standing in a nice line. My forefathers also hit the brits while the brits moved from one battlefield to another. I think I stand in good with my forefathers. They did what had to be done to get the job done.
So you think anything is acceptable? Do you think the terrorists are just doing what has to be done "to get the job done", and think it is acceptable?
Yes your forefathers may have been considered the terrorists of their day, but did they torture the British? Every schoolchild knows that Gen. George Washington made extraordinary efforts to protect America's civilian population from the ravages of war. Fewer Americans know that Revolutionary War leaders, including Washington and the Continental Congress, considered the decent treatment of prisoners to be one of the principal strategic preoccupations of the American Revolution.
Historian David Hackett Fischer wrote in Washington's Crossing: "In 1776 American leaders believed it was not enough to win the war. They also had to win in a way that was consistent with the values of their society and the principles of their cause. One of their greatest achievements was to manage the war in a manner that was true to the expanding humanitarian ideals of the American Revolution."
You may think you stand in good with your forefathers, but I don't think they would have stood with you if they were here. You people have lost your way.