Rumsfeld's Insurgency Epiphany

Donald Rumsfeld has decided that Iraqis fighting to undermine the U.S. occupation and the country's nascent government don't merit the term "insurgents." But in the same news conference in which Rumsfeld revealed his Thanksgiving weekend "epiphany" on the subject, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace used the term because he couldn't come up with a suitable alternative. It seems unlikely that Rumsfeld's unwieldy suggested terminology--"enemies of the legitimate Iraqi government"--will catch on.