To: Elroy who wrote (221697 ) 3/3/2005 9:32:07 AM From: Road Walker Read Replies (2) | Respond to re: In order to fight a protracted, multi year WAR, you definitely need those things I listed (bases, weaponry, training camps, and especially funds). Without them, you are never going to get the "insurgents" to be anything more than a minority terrorist fringe group. 10,000 Sunni crazies out of an Iraqi population of ~22 million (with ~7 million non-crazy Sunnis) aren't fighting a war in any normal sense of the word. They are essentially exploiting the anarchy left over from the power vaccuum. Personally, think the country would be better if split into three regions at best we don't know. The country is a chaotic mess of conflicting interests competing for valuable resources; a country without infrastructure, huge unemployment, multiple daily terrorist-like attacks, and with a fledgling political and legal system that is looking more like it's evolving towards an Iranian system than anything else. If the end game is Iran and Iraq as allies with similar governments, well, that's not exactly what the Bush neocons envisioned. (Or what the American people paid and are paying dearly for). Or there is the real possibility of escalating civil war, or even wars involving Syria or Iran. I find it hard to believe the Sunni insurgency can continue to fond suicide losers for years to come.
