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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: twmoore who wrote (7119)	12/10/2005 11:53:18 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Tw--Try giving a source when you post. I like this: "Who would the insurgents fight if the enemy left?" They have lots more schoolchildren to blow up. Poor Irv has missed the daily news out of Iraq. The "insurgents" have been blowing up a lot of Iraqi kids.

To: twmoore who wrote (7119)	12/15/2005 6:39:17 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 15987

Wouldn't a U.S. withdrawal embolden the insurgency? No. If the occupation were to end, so, too, would the insurgency. After all, what the resistance movement has been resisting is the occupation. Who would the insurgents fight if the enemy left? The Iraqi government and its supporters. The fundamentalist part of the insurgency would fight anyone who resisted a fundamentalist state in all or part of Iraq. The Baathists would fight anyone who resisted their grab for power. Possibly the Sunnis and Shia would fight each other in general. Tim