"Insurgents" No More---Now "Enemies of the People"

Jed Babbin, as usual, is right on the money:

The insurgents -- now unable to escape the label "enemy of the Iraqi people" -- are still supported by Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Those despotisms realize that their days are numbered if Iraqi democracy succeeds. They will become increasingly desperate to make the Iraqi democracy fail, and we will have to be in Iraq to protect it from them for the foreseeable future. President Bush is correct in saying that the election creates momentum behind the Iraqi democracy experiment. But momentum can be lost if we quit too soon. That is one of the central points we will hear on Wednesday when Mr. Bush delivers his State of the Union address. And it is one that the Democrats and their holy of holies – the U.N. -- can't bring themselves to answer.

This is yet another difference from the Vietnam War that neither senator from Massachussetts has the mental wherewithal to comprehend: Ho Chi Minh could spin the fiction that the Viet Cong were a popular uprising in South Vietnam because the Diem regime was not freely elected. Bin Laden and Zarqawi won't be able to do this, even though the MSM will try mightily to cast these foreign terrorists as "freedom fighters".