The insurgents are not soldiers. They are cowards. They prefer to prey on those who are unable to defend themselves, like unarmed civillians, including women and children. That is why they set off bombs in crowded markets and on busses and trains. When they do attack military targets, they focus on the support and resupply units, because they know these are less heavily armed than combat units. They thrive on weakness, chaos and fear, and the apathy of those who are able to stand up to them. Like a schoolyard bully, if you do not retaliate when they attack, or if you flee from them, they take it as a sign of weakness, and will keep coming after you. One of the reasons they came after us on 9-11 is because of the weakness Clinton showed in Somalia. When one mission went bad, and some American blood was shed, Billy boy did not have the courage and resolve to tackle them head on. He was too busy banging interns in the oval office and worrying about his approval polls. He pulled our troops out of Somalia, and the terrorists (not soldiers), who were trained by Osama and his cronies by the way, saw it as a sign of weakness. To them, it showed that they could defeat the "Great Americans." Not long after, the USS Cole was bombed, and then the WTC was attacked. The WTC attack took years of planning. They began putting it in motion while Clinton was still in office, because they perceived him as a weak leader who would not retaliate. If Gore had one the election in 2000, the attacks would still have gone off, and he would have rolled over and taken it like a pussy, just the same as Clinton would have. Thank God that a we had a President in office who had the balls to draw a line in the sand and say "NO MORE! If you attack us, we will come after you! If you kill our people, we will hunt you down! We will not stand idly by and wait for you to keep hitting us over and over again! We WILL fight back!" Fortunately, "W" was more concerned with showing that the USA will not take it lying down than keeping his poll numbers high and "getting a little intern action," that Hillary didn't know about on the side.