Iraq Offensive and Resistence

The recent Iraq offensive has been met by strong resistence on every front. In coordinated, daily strikes, counterstrikes, and battle initiations the Insurgence seems to have transmogrified from a rag-tag group of violent militants looking for leadership [al-Sadr, etc], into a potentially more organized and resourceful group of guerillas. It seems that it took only 3 years for these factions to organize themselves into self-determined militias capable of carrying out violent coordinated strikes. While the parallel is not true and straight, it is not wholly unlike the organizational shift undertaken by American "Insurgents" during the American Revolution against the British.

This is not to sympathize with the Insurgent Iraqis who use vicious and terroristic tactics toward an unknown, undeclared goal. At times they seem more like anarchists than Mullahs. But it is important to understand, as best we can, the processes of growth this movement undertakes as we fight it.