The enemy is so often reduced to one word. Once, it was “imperialists” and “communists,” now it’s “crusaders” and “terrorists.” Of course, with Iraq the deathly shambles that it is, with no one quite able any longer to put a finger on who it is that “we” are fighting over there – N.B.: everyone? – the enemy is, more and more in the words of our fearless leaders, simply “the enemy.”

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