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Originally Posted by pski215
.....HOWEVER you must realize sovereign nations fight on a battle field not behind their civilians, that is the problem with fighting terrorists such as the insurgents in Iraq and Gaza as well as Lebanon in 2006.....
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I'll add a few more to your list:
1) French resistance fighting the Nazis during WWII
2) Viet Cong fighting the French in the 1950s and later on the Americans in the 1960s and 1970s
3) Mujahadeen fighting the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s
4) Irgun (the Zionist Jewish rebels in Palestine) fighting against the British in the 1940s
5) African National Congress fighting the Apartheid governments in South Africa and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
It's called guerrilla warfare, and many groups you both approve of and don't approve of have done it. When you don't like them, you call them terrorists, and when you do like them, you call them freedom fighters. It involves surprise attacks on your enemy and on the establishment in order to create chaos, and then blending back into the popuation so you cannot be found. It always results in civilian deaths and destruction to the general infrastructure.
Whether or not it is a good thing or not is for another discussion. But don't be selective about it. Either you are for it or against it. As for myself, I am against it. I think the methods of Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. produce far better results. But obviously most of the world does not agree.