Iraqi 'Insurgency'

There is constant reporting about increased sophistication of Iraqi ‘insurgents’ in recent month or so. But somehow I find these articles, misinterpreting and misrepresent the situation. It would be outlandish to say that reporters are doing that purposefully, as these reports are getting published in prestigious news publications.

Iraqi army was a working and well maintained institution before Iraq war. They fought continuously with Iran for eight years and they were first class fighting unit in Middle-east before 1991 war. It is often portrayed that Iraqi army ran for covers when faced with U.S. army in 1991, but in the hindsight they did sensible thing. Then, they were not facing only U.S. army but almost whole world was against them and fighting would have been foolish. Plus, apparently they knew that U.S. army would change the regime, so they did the best thing under such circumstances.

Coming back to the reports about the increasing sophistication of Iraqi ‘insurgents’, we should understand that Americans are not fighting some dumb Afghanis in Afghanistan. They are facing an army with complete knowledge of weaponry and bomb making techniques. Not only that, these fighters got away with most of the weapons and equipments needed for bomb making. These people are intelligent enough to understand the strategies of U.S. troops and then attack at weak points. There is seems to a systematic effort to kill the Iraqis who are working for U.S. administration and of course, to kill U.S. soldiers.

It would be audacious to prophesize about the result of current fighting between Iraqis and U.S. U.S. troops has enormous resources and extremely advanced technology at their disposal but at the same time Iraqis have advantage of home ground and swelling local support. They are not getting sophisticated, they already are. All they are doing is to match tit for tat to U.S. efforts to quill them. The fight is on and it is going to be bloody.