Iraq Ain't No Insurgency, Say Former Petraeus Aides -- Small Wars JournalIraq cooled from a raging boil to a slow simmer, thanks mostly to tactics taken from the military's counterinsurgency manual. Or, at least, that's the accepted wisdom. But a group of military thinkers and Iraq veterans says the established narrative is all wrong. According to them, Iraq may not even be an insurgency at all.
In the classic insurgency scenario, you've got a group of guerrillas on one side, and an otherwise-legitimate host government on the other. It's the job of a military like America's to tip the balance towards stability and order, by keeping the insurgents from overthrowing that government.
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News On Iraq From Other Sources
Baghdad blast death toll leaps -- BBC News
Baghdad Calm Shattered By Deadly Bombing -- CBS News
Iraqi security forces ramp up for Maysan operation -- Long War Journal
Iraq army tightens grip on southern city -- Washington Post
Iraq gives al-Mahdi militia deadline to surrender its weapons -- Times Online
Sadr Launches his Election Campaign -- Time Magazine
Iraqi foreign minister: Al-Sadr threats 'unacceptable' -- CNN News
Sadr and His Sadrist Movement In Full Retreat, Part II -- Strata-Sphere
Car bomb strikes Baghdad market; 11 dead, 35 hurt -- L.A. Times
Iraq confidence rising amid lowered violence -- MSNBC
New ground rules in Iraq? -- Chicago Tribune
Iraq's political parties wrangle over the status of forces agreement -- Long War Journal
Iraq war sends refugee numbers soaring, U.N. warns -- CNN News
Iraq Safer, But No Peace Guarantee -- Time Magazine
Report From the Ground in Basrah -- Miserable Donuts
Opinion: Another Bad Deal for Baghdad -- New York Times
Opinion: Helping the Iraqis Who Help Us -- Commentary Magazine
Opinion: Al Qaeda's Vietnam -- New York Post
Opinion: Why Iraqis Back McCain -- Wall Street Journal
Opinion: What Iraq Needs Next -- New York Post
My Comment: Over 50 people were killed today from a terrorist car bomb attack in a Shiite part of Baghdad. While the opposition to the Iraqi Central Government and coalition forces has gone down in the past year, there are still numerous terrorist cells determined to cause chaos and death. As an organized insurgency .... one can say the insurgency is no longer organized. But unfortunately, terrorists, revenge killings, ethnic and religious mistrust, these are conditions that will persist for a very long time.
The biggest threat to Iraq's long term security comes from external factors such as Iran, and internal political disputes that cannot be settled through dialogue and reasonable accommodations.
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