Originally Posted by chickentribs

If your enemies asked a thug to stick around to keep you in line in your own home, would that be something you could respect? The Sunni insurgency is no different than your right to bear arms in this country to protect you and your family from government imposition should that day arise. I hear it all of the time on these boards about gun ownership, and you think these insurgents are any different from you??

From their POV, they have worked hard, educated themselves, built businesses, made Iraq what it is through sweat and blood. Now, these unappreciative, uneducated, lazy, backwoods Shia are taking everything away, just like they did in Iran. Only this time the U.S. is holding the gun to my head while we sit here and watch our whole lives destroyed. They have nothing left except to fight.

Of course they are terrorist now. They weren't a year ago. But terrorist doesn't refer to motive or right or wrong. Terror is your weapon, and if you make the violence seem random enough, and innocent people needlessly die, your terror will last a long time. 9/11 was horrible, but it was the fear of the unknown, the nothing that ever came, that crippled this country.