Liberal Talk Radio

The Carpetbagger reminds us that it’s been one year since Dick Cheney’s famous remark that we’re “in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.”

Of course, Cheney’s basically right. The word “insurgency” implies that there’s a single, monolithic power against which one could “insurge.” With U.S. troops increasingly stationed behind large walls and no one group really in charge of anything, there can no longer be a true insurgency. Just plain, old-fashioned anarchy.