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To: LindyBill who wrote (97778)1/31/2005 6:16:04 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 793743
 
No more "insurgents," please

I agree. It's part of my nomenclature rant. Every time I hear the foreign saboteurs in Iraq called "insurgents" I start foaming at the mouth.

We need new words.

Part of it is cultural, Arabs don't fight like we do. Or, as one Kurd said on the radio, "Arabs fight like coward. We fight like brave."

And part of it is just lack of verbal imagination. The Marines have an interesting Small Wars Center of Excellence that has great information, but they still are stuck using "small war" as a catch-all for a lot of different things.
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