[Jeff Head]

IMHO, I would not focus so much on the lack of a uniform. Many of the colonists did not have uniforms when they fought the British...that did not make them comparable to the terrorists of today in the least. To the contrary, they were patriots fighting against the tyranny of their day.

Rather, it is how they fight, and who they target and how they go about it, that breeds the understandable and, IMHO, justafiable contempt. Today's terrorist homociders are usually young, fairly ignorant, ideologues who have been indoctrinated in a tyranical ideology/religion by modern tyrants (Bin Laden, Zarquwi, Arafat, etc.).

[HairOfTheDog]

It's not just the lack of uniform, it's the absence of any code of conduct. It's the preying our best instincts, mercy, justice, compassion and responsibility.

It's beheading frightened prisoners on camera.

It's blowing up new schools and power plants.

It's blowing yourself up when the soldier who would tend to your wounds approaches you out of mercy.

And it's about those spoiled spoiled cowards in this country who would think these things are our fault and not our enemy.

And our news... I despise them because this is what they think is news. Iraq: Pictures show Saddam Hussein in his underwear

[DuncanWaring]

IMHO, I would not focus so much on the lack of a uniform. Many of the colonists did not have uniforms when they fought the British...

That issue is addressed:

"I would point out to Mr. Moore that when confronted by an overwhelming enemy force, our Minutemen grabbed their guns, put their elderly, their women and their children behind them, and went out to face their adversary as far away from the weak and vulnerable as possible."

They may not have had uniforms, but they still went out of their way to protect non-combatants.