George Galloway Interview

British MP and antiwar hero George Galloway is interviewed at Clamor, offering some interesting points about the Iraqi insurgency against the U.S. invasion. His comment about Paul Revere is something that has crossed my mind as well.

Q: Can you support those who resist the occupation outright, or are there tactics that make it difficult?

Galloway: All resistance to all occupation contains horrific acts of violence, whether it’s in Palestine or in Ireland or in Vietnam or in Algeria or in America. Let me tell you, if you study the annals of the British coverage of the American Revolution, Paul Revere was a terrorist! You were all terrorists! You were conducting a terrorist campaign against the lawful government of this colony. But there are not many people in the United States who believe Paul Revere was a terrorist. On the contrary, he was, if you’ll forgive the pun, revered as a revolutionary fighter against the foreign occupation of the country...

There’s an international legal right enshrined in the Geneva Convention for all occupied people to resist their occupation. This is not even a matter for debate. And frankly all would and will. If my country was occupied, I would resist it by any means necessary and any self-respecting person in Britain would do the same.