Bobby Sands

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children...

The cliche "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" could not be more true.
In this crazy world that we live in, we have somehow managed to rationalise the use of force. We have become so good at doing so that we even have two justifications for it, terror and freedom. It seems ironic that both are achieved through the same means.
As I walked down the Falls road in Belfast, soaking up the murals, I really wondered what could drive a man to kill his neighbour. Religion? Politics? Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll? And here's another cliche. As I walked, I was glad that there exists racial harmony in Singapore and that if we do not work hard to maintain this, we could quite easily become another Belfast, Sarajevo, Mazar i Sharif.

"A creative writing teacher at San Jose used to say about cliches 'avoid them like the plague' ... but I always thought cliches got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. But the aptness of the cliched saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliche."
~ Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runners