PBS Frontline (Insurgency Video up!)

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PBS Frontline -- Insurgency (The videos old, but its still worth a watch)

The insurgency's current shift from violence to the ballot box may be the country's best hope to resolve the conflict. Col. Mohammed Faiq of the Iraqi army is candid about the situation confronting his country: "If the coalition forces left Iraq, that would be the end of Iraq, the destruction of Iraq. You could forget about a country called Iraq." But differences of opinion within the insurgency may provide a political opening. "Extreme Islamists, they don't believe in politics," says Ghaith Abdul-Ahad. "They don't believe in elections; they don't believe in democracy." Other insurgent voices, however, are more receptive: "At one point, [a senior insurgent leader] went to the mosque, and at the pulpit he said, 'We cannot build a state by car bombs,'" relates Abdul-Ahad. "Now there's a huge split of what to do, what to do with Al Qaeda."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/insurgency/view/

 

[gick]

If the insurgents don't give up violence, then thats obviously a bad thing. But if they go into politics, then given the way Iraqis voted in the last few elections, I think we could see another Iran emerging in a decade or so's time.