I think Mr. Bush and his friends imagine insurgents as silly looking targets like this:
But most of the reality of the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan is manifest in one great photograph by James Nachtwey:
If you pick someone at random in Iraq, there's an excellent chance Americans have already killed his father or mother, sister or brother, grandfather or grandmother, uncle or aunt, niece or nephew, or some combination of all of the above, and if you could somehow transform how much they hate us into light, you could see it burning all the way from the Andromeda Nebula.
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