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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: neolib who wrote (236618)6/10/2005 9:35:39 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1576815
 
Defeating insurgencies is difficult unless you deal with the root problem. This is what I learned in southern Africa, and I believe the USA has so far failed to learn in Iraq.

The root problem in this case is that you have some Islamic fundamentalists and some Baathists who would rather rule the country than have the current government be in charge. In the long run the result will depend on how Iraq's government deals with the situation. We can weaken the insurgency and give the government time to grow, but we aren't going to completly eliminate the insurgency.

I don't think Iraq's government is really all that unpopular. The insurgency isn't a mass movement against some corrupt abusive government, but rather a movement be people who would impose an abusive government. But the various factions of the insurgency still have enough support to be dangerous. An insurgency doesn't need majority support to be a serious problem.

Tim
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