Heroic Cylons versus Vicious Terrorists

That reasonable concervative, Jon Swift, has been enjoying the first few episodes of Battlestar Galactica series three:

Jon Swift: On Battlestar Galactica Heroic Cylons Battle Vicious Terrorists

The Sci Fi Channel show is a moving and haunting allegory about why we should stay the course in Iraq. The heroes are a deeply religious race, called the Cylons, who struggle to bring democratic ideals and Christian values to a planet called New Caprica (Iraq, of course) in the face of an increasingly violent insurgency. In a clever and ironic twist the Christian Cylons (Americans) are actually very human-like machines, while the villainous "humans" on New Caprica (al Qaeda) are brutal terrorists who follow a primitive polytheistic religion and behave like animals.