Iraqi insurgency far from 'fizzling'

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0425/dailyUpdate.html

Iraqi insurgency far from 'fizzling'

Experts say insurgents have retaken momentum as politicians 'dither' over cabinet posts.

By Tom Regan| csmonitor.com

Just a few weeks after US military officials optimistically predicted that the Iraq insurgency was 'fizzling' because the number of attacks per day was down, many of those same officials now believe they were wrong, and that the insurgency is strengthing again.
The Boston Globe reported Sunday that US military officials now believe that the greater coordination and sophistocation of attacks demonstrated by insurgents in recent weeks means they have changed their tactics, rather than disappeared or given up.

'One of the insurgency's strengths is its capacity to regenerate,' said retired Army General John Keane, who returned recently from a fact-finding mission in Iraq. 'We have killed thousands of them and detained even more, but they are still able to regenerate. They are still coming at us.'

More troublesome is that these same military experts also believe that the insurgents "are making inroads toward sparking a full-blown sectarian war," and that it may not be possible for the US to reduce its troop strength as quickly as some recent Defense Department statements have indicated.

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You would never know that any of this is being discussed if you watch the tv news. Nobody seems to know what is going on in Iraq anymore. My guess is that it is at least 10x as screwed up as they would like us to believe.

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That's why there were all those reports about violence diminishing in Iraq. It's actually been going up in the last few weeks. Suddenly my brain feels much better knowing that the media is continuing to lie.

American officials don't have a clue.

the Christian Science Monitor, stirring shit up again! <sarcasm off>
Seriously, if something runs in this paper you can be sure it's been investigated and checked for accuracy. If the Monitor is saying something, it's a good bet they are on the mark.
The military and political mindset that we've killed them all, it should be over, is analogous to sitting outside in say, Michigan, at dusk in the summer. It is impossible to kill ALL the mosquitos that will attack you. Can't be done.