Learning from history - part the twoth

The government keep trying to excuse the mess they have helped create in Iraq by maintaining that they couldn't possibly have foreseen what was going to happen. And yet.... It's not that long ago that we watched what happened in Yugoslavia, a recent artificially created country only held together by a strong repressive government, when that government collapsed. So now we have Iraq - a recent artificially created country only held together by a strong repressive government, and we go in and deliberately remove that government, and...... well, goodness gracious me, I didn't see that coming! Of course, as we all know, it's really down to the insurgents. This word "insurgents" keeps cropping up in official pronouncements, rather like a comfort blanket - it's all down to these wicked people coming in from outside, and the Iraqis themselves, left alone, would live a Utopian existence in peace and harmony. Really? My understanding is that in those (admittedly few) cases where the perpetrators of terror attacks have been able to be identified, the overwhelming majority have been native Iraqis. Ah yes, then goes the argument, the insurgents are using Iraqis to do the dirty work, but they are behind it. Comfort blanket again. I'm sure there are people who have been drawn to Iraq to help in what they see as a struggle of principle - exactly as many British and Americans were drawn to Spain's civil war in the 1930's (learning from history - part the third!), but I think this insistence that it's all down to these insurgents owes more to wishful thinking than reality. I guess that my use of words like "Iraq" and "insurgents" probably means that this post will have been flagged by the intelligence services - so hello, lads, and have a nice day.