From the new Counterinsurgency manual:

Counterinsurgency is not just thinking man’s warfare—it is the graduate level of war.

-- Special Forces Officer in Iraq, 2005

Compare with the Matt Blaze comment from the Sunday NYT:

"If a grad student can figure it out," he said, "we can assume agents of Al Qaeda can do the same."

So the Army observes that fighting insurgents is much harder than fighting conventional forces, and therefore they associate it with the seekers of higher education. Meanwhile, those thus associated have found it both necessary and appropriate to equate their community with terrorists as a way of signaling their general ineptitude.

So they basically agree, but for completely different reasons. As a consequence, each negates the spirit of the other's argument.

(Don't bother to reply just to point out the distinctions between insurgents and terrorists.)