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Is It No Longer Just Terrorists?
From an article today on plans for transition to Iraqi control:
"These organizations will give Iraqis the means to defend their country against terrorists and insurgents," L. Paul Bremer said at a press conference.
I had been thinking that in this new world everyone who was against us was a terrorist, and that we'd forgotten such terms as insurgents, rebels, guerillas, revolutionaries and the like. What is the word here: are we going to start calling some of these folks "insurgents" instead, bestowing some level of legitimacy on, for example, Shi'ites using violence to advance their political goal of an Islamic fundamentalist site? After all, our friends the Kurds were "insurgents" -- are we hoping the new polity will be able to handle them, now?
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