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To: mph who wrote (15931)	4/4/2006 2:23:41 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541755

You're also assuming that there is a real difference between "insurgents" and "terrorists" in Iraq. I don't thing there's a difference, not in Iraq. In other countries there may be. But the insurgents in Iraq are all but defined by their terrorism. That doesn't make it invalid to call them insurgents. They are, after all, insurgents. They are rising up against the country's authority structure. This act was certainly an act of terrorism as are so many of the actions taken by the insurgents in Iraq. There's an NCAA championship basketball game tonite. Maryland vs. Duke. What do you call the participants? They are, duh, basketball players. They are also women. So why don't we refer to them as women? Because they're playing basketball. That is their salient role in this scenario. There's no disrespect to women in calling them players, no intent to deny that they're women. But they're playing basketball so we call them players. Just as we call those who are fighting back in in Iraq insurgents. Because that's what insurgents do. That they also happen to be Arabs or men or terrorists or Muslims is both peripheral and assumed.

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