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A pingaroo.

Here we have the very essence of what the WOT is actually about. It is for this that Bush cast aside his personal reputation (such as it was) with the international institutions to which he is not necessarily otherwise estranged. It is for this that we invaded Iraq.

This man (and for the ACLU lurkers, please insert "alleged" in the appropriate locations. Thanks) is a member of a formal state organ who is actively participating in the proliferation of weapons and violence in another country under the auspices of a putative "resistance" movement. In fact, this is state-sponsored terror through proxy armies who are carrying on a stipulated national policy. Furthermore, he has done so under the protection of international law in the form of the sanctuary of his own border and its ability to protect the origins of the terror that he has been caught introducing into Iraq.

He is not, obviously, unique; in fact, he represents an entire method of warfare that has formed around the structure of internationalist systems - the UN, the ICC, etc, etc - who regard this activity as an entirely permissible control over the United States. Not formally, of course. A certain amount of winking and pretense is involved, naturally, but in fact this man typifies precisely the form of illegitimate warfare the acceptance of which is the price the West is expected to pay in return for the highly dubious benefits of participation in the system. Bush's great crime to them was that he opted out.

Were it up to me the man would be stood up in front of a wall and shot. He is an enemy combatant who (presumably) has eschewed a uniform and hence the protection that offers under the Geneva convention. And those who sent him are absolutely subject to retaliation in kind. Were it up to me Ahmadinejad's next motorcade might run into some serious mechanical difficulties courtesy of the same EFP's he has directed be used on our troops. That is the only thing short of open war that might be convincing enough. We've been at covert war for some time.