

Those who support the occupation would have us believe that it's because the insurgents are "evil" or "fascists", as if they were sent by Beelzebub or perhaps inspired by Hitler to go out and blow the limbs and heads off their fellow countrymen.

T here has never been, in my view, a satisfactory answer to the question: why do Iraqi insurgents target civilians? Why do they incinerate scores of worshippers and blow to pieces children taking sweets from American soldiers? Why did they walk into a mosque over the weekend, dressed as women, and blow up themselves and 74 others?
