from Slate
Al-Qaida in Mesopotamia has become transformed...without the customary qualifications about its probable foreign leadership, into "a largely homegrown terrorist group." Ah, yes, homegrown: a reassuringly horticultural image with likable overtones of thrift and enterprise.
Christopher Hitchens quibbles with a New York Times description that may be the central confusion in America's Middle Eastern military adventure. Are these guys local or do we have an international conspiracy? Whatever the answer, and however the coalition (or what remains of it) responds to the problem, the jihadists are not like chile peppers or cabbage.
Hitchens later enjoys a gibe about the "overwhelmingly Catholic" Irish Republican Army.
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