The Face of the Iraqi Resistance

Published on September 12, 2004 By pseudosoldier In Blogging

Although he has been sitting in my "Iraqi Blogs" link section off to the right, I hadn't been checking in on "Iraq the Model" for awhle. I'm making a greater effort to go through all my blog "favorites" lately, and was very pleased to see this insightful article on that site Link

"Most of the arab and Muslim government were against toppling Saddam, and that was certainly not because they liked him or his regime. They were afraid and still are of the consequences of this regime change in Iraq. They tried their best to prevent it by diplomatic ways and they made it easy for fighters from different places to go to Iraq through their borders, but that was not enough. After the regime fall, they were waiting for Iraqi resistance to start and make Iraq a hell for Americans. Days and weeks passed without a single resisting act. After Baghdad’s liberation most of the governerates surrendered with their troops not even engaged in a battle no matter how small. That was more than what Arab rulers could take; an “Arab Muslim” country being invaded and the regime being changed without the people putting an effort to resist it? What should this mean? That Iraqis wanted the change? This could give really insane thoughts to Arabs and Muslims anywhere who didn’t like their governments, and many of these are not much better than Saddam’s regime.
It’s as simple as that; there was no resistance but there should’ve been one, so the Iraqi resistance was ‘invented’."

I really feel that this is brilliant deductive reasoning. (I reserve the right to reverse my feelings later, if I'm convinced otherwise, as I'm currently quite feverish. I don't think I'll have to, however.) I continue to be grateful for these sorts of "looks inside" Iraq.

Check it out.

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