The Insurgency is Over
Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News wrote an editorial banning the use of the word insurgent from their pages. They say that the fighting in Iraq is no longer an insurgency but a terrorist action because of the targeting of normal Iraqi men, women, and children. They correctly label the fighters as terrorists, but it hasn’t been an insurgency for a long time.
We’ve learned that Iran has sent and is sending bomb materials into Iraq. Foreign fighters have become the the biggest threat to Iraqi security, not dissident Iraqi groups. Most Iraqis realize that the way to get the US out is to vote on a Constitution in October and vote again in December. Our troops will start hitting the doors in 2006 and everyone knows that (assuming things are under control).
An insurgency implies that the fight is from within a nation. For months we’ve know that the biggest source of fighters and supplies has been other countries like Iran and Syria who are anxious to see the US fail in Iraq. There is nothing “insurgent” about that, the proper term is “invasion”. While the fringe Left celebrates each American causality coming home to Dover and claims that Iraqis don’t want us there, they fail to realize that the Iraqis are predominantly the targets of these attacks and that more often than not the bomb or the bomber was from another country.
You hear the phrase “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” from those same fringe leftists like Ted Rall. Unless George Washington was blowing up women and children of British families that claim is spurious at best. It’s time to stop granting legitimacy to those who attack civilians and it’s time to stop deluding ourselves that these fighters have Iraq’s best interests in mind. Not while they are being sent by other countries at least.
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It’s about time at least one part of the media woke up. Michael Yon does a wonderful job on covering how they really operate.
Comment by NYgirl | August 13, 2005
Though I can’t see how the Boston Tea Party and tar and feathering wouldn’t be considered terrorism today (and were by the British then), our founding fathers have nothing to do with it!
We were the ones calling these same people “freedom fighters” and “insurgents” when they were foreigners in Afghanistan armed with foreign weapons (some of them ours!) fighting against the Evil Empire.
Comment by potAto potato | August 14, 2005