re: #377 prononymous

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.

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

Yes, but it was the intervention that allowed for those changes in the first place by removing Saddam. For Iraq to change for the better, Saddam and his sons had to go.