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If only the Iraqi insurgents and their masters from other regional regions had been clever. If only, then they could have conquered Iraq easily by now. It could have been so easy for them and so easy for the US coalition.
If, after the fall of Baghdad in April, 2003, the insurgency would have paused, the US coalition would have celebrated its win, repaired and built up Iraq's infrastructure and oil industry, and left Iraq. Aid money would have poured in from the US, European and Asian nations seeking to do business with new Iraq.
After perhaps a year, Iraq would have reaped massive benefits. All the world, along with the majority of the Iraqi people would be settling in to a profitable and somewhat secure routine within a year.
Civil people would be going about their business in Iraq and the world would be turning toward other problems.
Then, suddenly, in that relatively relaxed atmosphere, the insurgency could easily erupt. It could have used that year-long period of pause to group, train, organize, develop a plan, and erupt.
Why did the insurgency of the Middle East not pause? Could it be so lacking in leadership, angry, engulfed in fanaticism, vengeful and fired up by self-serving foreign fanaticism that it could not pause to plan?
Or do the insurgents actually have no ability to plan anything more complex than planting road side IEDs and flying passenger airplanes into buildings?
Even today -- if the insurgency were able -- it could implement this plan and reach its purported objectives of destruction and disruption.
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