Before I make the point I really want to make, let me be clear: I am not
for the guerillas in Iraq. They aren't fighting for freedom, they are fighting to restore the kind of dictatorial regime they had under Saddam Hussein. As I indicated
here, the enemy of the Iraqi people during Hussein's time wasn't Israel or Iran, or even America until George W. Bush was placed into the White House. It was Saddam Hussein and the Baathists, who used military force to maintain political control over the majority of the Iraqi people. I have no sympathy for suicide bombers or people who intentionally target civilians.
Having said that, let me say that the insurgents have been very helpful in a very unusual way: they have prevented the United States from rolling into Iran or Syria at will. The US Army is
bogged down fighting the resistance, and the Bush administration, in particular Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have been shown to be incompetent military leaders who lied and bullied their way into invading in the first place, then proceeded to make life worse for Iraqis than it was under Hussein. It's one thing to be a war criminal, it's quite another to be so damn bad at it. They provided the fertile ground for the insurgents, and the insurgents are now preventing the US from occupying the rest of the Middle East.
An invasion of Iran or Syria, which is what the neocon cockroaches were plannng, is simply not possible. Iran's population is several times that of Iraq, and whatever ethnic divisions they have within their country would surely disappear in the face of an invading army. In other words, if you think the shit is bad in Iraq, it would be a rose garden compared to Iran, where our soldiers might be dying in even greater numbers, and there would be hundreds of thousands of dead Iranians. The insurgent's presence, while hateful, is accomplishing something positive after all.
Cup O' Joe - Blog Of The Working Man!