Hark dude You are assuming me as some ignorant person about the American and world history as if you know me really well in person. That is a really funny thing to read..ha ha ".............what have the Maoists done in Nepal ? Except to kill and terrorize people who defy their obstructionist thinking............" Well, the American revolutionaries did exact the same thing of killing and terrorizing people who were loyal to the colonial regime. Of course the loyalists defied the revolutionary ideas of Patriots therefore the loyalists met their fate. They were left with no choice but be forced to flee and take refuge in Canadian colonies of British empire. The estimated number of 55 thousand (55,000) people to flee American colonies to take refuge in Canada. The figure is very large for that time period in history. So you totally lack moral ground to glorify the American revolutionaries as "gentlemen" while at the same time label the Maoists as "terrorists" for the axact same acts of killings and terror. In the eyes of colonial regime the American revolutionaries were also terrorists if you apply the same threshold of proof of acts. Why he heck should I see it differently over the American revolutionaries from the Maoists ? "...given a peaceful way to voice their grievence, the American founding father would never have taken arms........" Well, the American founding fathers did have peaceful means. 0' Well, there was a simple solution, pay the taxes levied by the colonial regime and avoid the fight. If they were not interested in paying taxes as levied by the colonial regime but rather interested to to take the colonial regime out of American colonies well, Mahatma Gandhi busted the same colonial regime out of India without taking arms or without the battles like Battle of Lexington, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of Saratoga and about 3 dozen more battles. Well, then I dont see American revolationaries did any different than the Maoist for fighting all out war. After all , the American revolutionaries had also dipped themselves in blood in fight against the colonial regime then why the heck do I see it differently from the Maoists ? Just like the Maoists, the American revolutionaries also paralized the lower half of British colony in North America and created a great nuisence for the colonial regime after the major battles began to errupt in various parts in American colonies mainly after 1775. In that sense the American revolutionaries were terrorists in the eyes of colonial regime. The fascinating similarity is that the American founding fathers and the founders of Maoists both believed and acted on the idea that "Power comes out of the barrel of a gun." It is really hard to tell who is stupid and who is not unless you see the same type of inhumane violence committed by two different groups in two different time period in history and reach a totally different verdicts for those two differnt groups for the same type of acts. By the way, the Nepali conflict is far more complex than the American War of Independence because of complex social, political, economic, cultural and racial and geographical components attached to the conflict. One thing I must remind you that even if the Maoist have had not started the war some other group would have had definately started the conflict anyway. The only credit that the Maoist got is that they became the first group to do so. Gyane or his army does not have the mind to understand that complexity nor he has any solution beside deploying his army. He can scratch out the scar but doesnt have any brains nor the willingness to look deep beneath. And the war goes on. Chao