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U.s Cannot Defeat Iraqi Resistance A well written article appeared in two parts at the last days of 2007 on Jordanian newspaper Al-arab Al-youm by Jordanian journalist Nahedh Hatter [Part-1, part-2…Arabic], the original name of the two parts article is “The Iraqi resistance, is it the end?“.
The writer explains the strategy used by the Iraqi resistance to defeat the American occupation, later he counts few mistakes committed by the Iraqi resistance, and in second part he explains how the Iraqi resistance changed the world power balance.
Although Iraqi resistance operations are at lowest level in the last three months, the American occupation didn’t win the war, not militarily nor politically.
At the military level, the US can not win over guerrilla fighters supported by their community, as well as the abilities of the Iraqi resistance fighters proved to be really high since the occupation of 2003 till now.
The Iraqi resistance organizations have not crushed, but it turned into a militia govern their own influence areas.
At the political level, this development does not benefit the American agenda in Iraq, only to obtain a truce for the presidential elections.
The Iraqi resistance internal infrastructure is too complicated to the Americans to manage and can be described as an independent regional power, this was also the British experience with Iraq ninety years ago, prior to the establishment of the Iraqi State.
What does that truce means?
The survival law has won -and this is normal- the resistance community and its guardian of the Sunni Arab tribes fought fiercely and courageously for four years without external support, in difficult circumstances and on three fronts.
In addition to the criminal nature of the occupation, and faced with what could be described as a genocide by two internal forces:
Shiite militias associated with Iran, and Al-Qaeda militias associated with other regional forces, including - ironically-Iran also.
The first one attacked the Sunnis in the Baghdad and its surroundings, and the second attacked the Sunnis in their on region.
therefore, a broad Sunni stream called for a truce, which was accepted by the exhausted and even fatigue occupier, for example:
The resistance slogan says:
The resistance is the only and the legitimate representative of the Iraqi people
Shiites and Kurds interpret this slogan that the Sunnis want to re-gain the power again, therefor, in the Iraqi context, it wasn’t revolutionary, it was sectarian. Neither could any of the resistance organizations, because of their religious or* sectarian nature they failed to provide an internal national vision, even the Baathists refused an initiative to self-criticismand review the mistakes of the past,* insist on regaining the power which led them to isolation not only by the Iraqi society* ,* but in resistance community also.
But the worst mistake was: hosting Al-Qaeda, which* opened the sectarian massacres,* imposition* itself as Taliban-like, authoritarian state on the resistance in particular.
FULL ARTICLE AND LINK
http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/01/0...power-balance/
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