Who are they kidding?

Victor Davis Hanson wonders why we don't listen more to the statements of radical Muslim leaders. Me too, considering how many times I've seen the insurgents in Iraq described as "freedom fighters." Do freedom fighters vow to commit genocide? Do they assassinate captives? Do they promise to reinstate authoritarian regimes like the Taliban? Do they target and kill the very people they claim to be trying to free?

Glenn Reynolds makes a similar point about the threat these creeps represent to their own people. They're more like to repeat the mass murders and imprisonment that have followed our withdrawals from Southeast Asia.