Re:Meanwhile, in Baghdad (Score 1)

And just what victory is being achieved by writing them off as insane? It is that very attitude that is going to perpetuate this problem indefinitely.

It's not about a victory, it's stating what it is to blow up a nightclub.

What "kool-aid" do you think I've drunk? You think it is bad that I want to encourage some kind of understanding of the enemy?

I don't think that not calling them terrorist is an understanding worth having. They are. Blowing up HMMV's is one thing, blowing up a market square quite another.

Go ahead write them off if you want and we'll just continue the failing policies of the current US administration. Policies that cause the ranks of the "terrorists" to swell. The "war on terror" is cruel joke. Like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.

And please don't misunderstand me, our policies in Iraq, and the middle east in general, are ludicrous, and need to be completely revamped. Our war on terror is succeeding only in training more jihadists, and fueling the fires of indoctrination. BUT. Not calling people who blow up nightclubs, subway trains, and places where families are buying food terrorist isn't realistic and painting a false picture of who we are actually dealing with, and that is the issue that I took with your initial statement.