And you still can't see parallels with the other side?
sure. i can see one nutbar machinegunning a preschool in france, but we're talking about not isolated incidents, but organized deliberate highly funded plots which result in popular celebrations in sandland every time some haji pulls the pin on his bomb vest in a nightclub.
Example: the IRA did some great work making the brits pay for their occupation of ireland, and occaisionally shit got out of hand, but the IRA was protected supported and abetted by the irish people, as well as the diaspora, and as such, the IRA was not an isolated group of fringe partisans. had the IRA indulged in random inexplicable acts of murder mayhem and madness all around the world, they would have lost their support among their own people as well as the rest of the civilized world.
likewise, the british did not engage in the kind of occupation which would be needed to put down that rebellion. the civilized world would not have stood for it.
thats how india became free, they faced a civilized nation who was reluctant to go medieval on their asses, and maintained a resistance which engendered sympathy with the rest of the world.
SandLand doesnt roll like that. they got ONE MOVE, and thats "Blow something up, ANYTHING, and the more horrifyingly barbaric the better".
passive resistance would have gotten the colonial powers out of sandland long ago, but the "Blow Something Up" playbook has only escalated the problem.
of course various US administrations meddling in sandland's internal affairs didnt help, but the pretense that the orient's problems are all america's fault is ridiculous. they been actin like barbarians fro 1100 years.
