re: #365 Dark_Falcon

No, but Iraq was a land of mass killings and political oppression before we were there.

That was the regime doing those things. The power vacuum left after the invasion caused the insurgency. In that sense it would be more of a case of us using military intervention to, accidentally, start an insurgency rather than stop one.

And the insurgency isn’t gone yet, but the Iraqi government is slowly grinding it under. Barring a major misstep by al-Maliki, he will succeed in destroying it.

So it sounds like sociopolitical change and economic stability is ending the insurgency more effectively than military intervention did.