U.S. forces are being held at bay by Fundamentalists in Western Iraq, and the only thing I can think of saying here is: good! The fact is, active resistance is probably the only chance Iraq has of gaining any freedom from a U.S. agenda that includes and implicates the puppet regime currently in place. The U.S. agenda is the only driving force in Iraq today. That is, of course, why it’s called a puppet regime.

Never mind that this resistance is Fundamentalist, and some are loyal to the Hussein regime of old. At this point, anything works. The U.S. must withdraw, whether forcibly or otherwise, or we risk overextending ourselves (which we have, in fact, already done) and alienating more of the world than we have already. Our cries for assistance in Iraq are being met with deaf ears, and Iraqis have made it inordinately clear that they just wish we (the United States of America) would leave them alone.

While I question their tactics (“question” is really the wrong word here – beheadings are just plain Dark Ages cruel), I still maintain that the spirit, the goal, is correct. Find a less abhorrent way of dealing with it that doesn’t violate every shred of human rights law and invest in a little bit of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, and this would go much smoother. While I advocate arresting and putting on trial those who would behead our troops and commit violence against U.S. military officers, I say again, the aim is correct, though wrongly implemented through violence towards those that are only following orders.

But then, that was the defense during the Nuremberg Trials.