(Dallas Morning News) Editorial - Today, this editorial board resolves to sacrifice another word - "insurgent" - on the altar of precise language. No longer will we refer to suicide bombers or anyone else in Iraq who targets and kills children and other innocent civilians as "insurgents." The notion that these murderers in any way are nobly rising up against a sitting government in a principled fight for freedom has become, on its face, absurd. To call them "insurgents" insults every legitimate insurgency in modern history. They are terrorists. Teenagers who strap bombs to their chests and detonate them in an Israeli cafe? Terrorists.
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