ABSTRACT
A model of resistance as a diagnostic of power makes no investment whatsoever in the subject position of the agents—it simply uses their acts as evidence for various modes of power, including the power of resistance itself". And it is from this perspective that author approaches the political subjugation of hostages in Occupied Iraq. Similar to the Bush administration, Paul Bremer thought that the United States confronted, in Iraq, a struggle between good and evil, and he therefore resisted the idea of negotiating with representatives of the insurgent forces. If the war and occupation of Iraq is, in the words of Derek Gregory, a colonial present, then the insurgency constitutes an anti-colonial and, by extension, an anti-capitalist movement. Publically, the captors of foreign and Iraqi hostages have declared that their actions are in reprisal for atrocities committed by Coalition forces.
