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What type of society do the 'insurgents' stand for? What are their values? I would say they stand for lawlessness, treachery, disregard for civil rights, ethnic segregation, no freedom of speech or press, the subjugation of women, a form of government based not on modern principles of law and order, but on a backward and medieval interpretation of Islamic scripture.
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I just wanted to flag this up for a moment. I don't think this is what the insurgency is necessarily all about. The insurgents want; an end to occupation, and end to being raided in their homes in the middle of the night, an end to checkpoints, and end to civillian deaths, an end to seeing foreign troops on their soil, an end to their humiliation at the hands of the west, an end to their human rights being violently snatched away from them by western troops, and a form of government that isn't subject to manipulation and the cheapening of values that is evident in the decadent west.
This is why direct intervention and occupation never works, whatever you do, it will always be interpreted by the occupied as an affront. The removal of Hussain should have been attempted using a more intelligent and delicate approach.