The insurgents listen to the News too, they knew that they had the coalition forces beaten and that they were leaving, then they could do pretty much as they wanted, that is what we are seeing now.
Coalition forces beaten? Are you living on Mars?
Dream on, Pinocchio. The coalition knew they were never going to succeed even before Maliki was installed.
They already succeeded. Most of the country was at peace. They left before the political part was finished. Obama made a terrible mistake.
The insurgents may have lost many battles, but in the end they won the war. The coalition forces were totally out of their element when combating a guerrilla force, just as they were in Vietnam, Central America and a dozen other small wars they have been involved in. Their strength is in technology as we saw in Kuwait where they had a resounding success.
The insurgents were defeated. Coalition forces were training the Iraqis to take over but left too soon.
The US did not lose the war in Vietnam. They won. They bombed the Vietnamese to the negotiation table in Paris where they signed a peace agreement. They promised not to enter South Vietnam and the US would send its forces back home. The US kept its promise, the Vietnamese didn't. What happend afterwards is that the US didn't come to the rescue of South Vietnam.