Who are the terrorists now?

Even the US Ambassador to Iraq now thinks the "militias" are killing more than the insurgents. Of course, by "militias," we mean the Shiite dominated police. It's not happening in Kurdistan. It's also not surprising, statistically, that if you piss of the Shiites, they will wreak more havoc than the Sunni arabs because they outnumber them 3:1.

However, all this begs the question, who are the terrorists in Iraq that we're fighting? The Bush doctrine of a universal fight against terrorism involves a rough definition of what a terrorist is. It includes state-run terror, which is how we roped Saddam into the definition. We now see that semi-official death squads are involved in ethnic cleansing. We supported intervention in Yugoslavia for that reason.

Now, of course, it's a little trickier since we trained them. Except the ones who got trained in Iran. Which brings up the fact that in the 1980's, we were supplying support to Saddam against the Iranians, so the "remnant Baathists" in Iraq may owe some of their training to the US as well. Not to mention the jihadists from Afghanistan.

Am I trying to make a point here? Yes. Let's get out now.