As I have watched the news and read the newspapers during the last two weeks of this war, I have noticed a ridiculous, yet consistent theme: Iraqis fight unfairly. This theme has gone as far as calling Iraqi soldiers "barbarians." The question should not be whether they are fighting unfairly, but the question should be: How are they supposed to fight?

The U.S. military has the power to drop a smart bomb so precisely that it can hit the fourth window to the right on the second floor of Saddam's third palace. The Iraqi military cannot fight like this and even when they try to buy material from other countries, like Russia, it is immediately stopped.

The only thing the Iraqi military can do is suicide bombing and attacking coalition forces in buildings. It would be a death sentence for anyone to attack the U.S. military head on.

A simple look at history tells us that the Iraqi people are not barbarians. When the Greeks and Romans fought other tribes, since these tribes could not supply a whole army, they hid in trees or in bushes to fight. Because these tribes were from a different culture with different values and they lost -- and only because of these reasons -- they are considered barbarians today.

And now that I think about it: Wasn't it patriotic and brave to hide in trees and other places during the Revolutionary War while the British fought in straight lines? Give me a break. We are at war. War is unfair. People do not want to die and Iraqi soldiers are not barbarians.