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The unholy alliance in Iraq

Hiwa Osman:

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The unholy alliance between the former regime supporters and Islamist terrorists who have poured across open borders from neighboring countries is the driving force for this insurgency.
Remnants of the old regime are now standing in the streets of Samarra and Fallujah in the Sunni triangle, directing attacks against the U.S. and Iraqi government forces and facilitating the suicide attacks of the foreign jihadis in Baghdad and other areas.
The ongoing insurgency has been sustainable only through the support of the neighboring countries that harbor their leaders and allow the free flow of fighters and money across Iraq's borders.
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting revealed last week that Iran is harboring and assisting the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, a large, mostly Iraqi Kurdish affiliate group of al Qaeda.
Their journalists also report that in Fallujah Syrian militias are openly operating. One Syrian combatant told a reporter that he was in Iraq fighting the United States because "if we don't fight them here, we will have to fight them in Syria."
An Iraqi journalist, who lived under Saddam Hussein, visited Syria recently. He returned home and said he felt like he was back in Saddam's Iraq. "The place was heaving with sons of Ba'athists and former regime officials," he observed.

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It is not in any neighboring government's interest for terrorism to end in Iraq. It would signal a victory for the United States and for the new interim government and a "defeat" for autocratic neighboring states.