The pro-warriors keep asserting that the fact that the insurgents did not manage to disrupt the elections shows that we are winning. But given that the insurgency appears to be going along at a fast enough pace between elections, why should the temporary drop during an election be seen as significant?
Perhaps (a) the insurgents don't care about elections or see them as an alternate and complementary way to pursue their agenda (and denunciations of the elections by Zarqawi simply show how out-of-touch he is with the majority of insurgents) and/or (b) the fact that we shut down Iraq during the election had something to do with it.
If we shut down Iraq completely for the long term, we could probably severely decrease the insurgency. Of course, Iraq would become a complete welfare state where no one worked and we would have to essentially bring everyone their food and other household necessities, so such as idea would be unlikely to be a doable scenario.
In any case, the pro-warriors overestimate what the elections will accomplish.
That is all.
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