If you were president?

Question

1) How would you handle Iraq in it's current situation and what do you think the consequenses would be?

2) How would you then continue to fight the war on terror?

Answer 1

1) I would pull out our troops within the next few months, regardless of whether the puppet government we got “elected” was stable and powerful enough to control the country. Ultimately the preservation of soldier’s lives is of far greater import than whether we start a democracy in a country, which for all intents and purposes, may not be ready for a democracy. The fact that the country might descend into turmoil is something they must work out for themselves. All democracies, including our own, started out in conflict and disarray. The only lasting democracies are ones that arise from these conflicts on their own.

2) I would fight the war on terror by ceasing to utilize conventional warfare to achieve our objectives. You cannot use a traditional war paradigm because victory in a war is measured by territory gained and capitulation by enemies in an official treaty. Al Qaeda and other militant movements don’t vie for territory, and have no official hierarchy with which to negotiate surrender. So I would use intelligence measures such as clandestine assassinations, undercover infiltration, and the freezing of assets to accomplish my objective. I would also focus on the ideological centers that engender recruitment and subscription to militant views. In essence I would eliminate the madrasses, Mosques and religious clerics that promote militant views by utilizing proxy soldiers culled from the indigenous population where these militant groups gather their recruits. These soldiers can assassinate these clerics and demolish the Mosques and Madrasses. Since the soldiers come from the same people who inhabit areas where militancy is promoted, an American face cannot be attached to these counterterrorist efforts.

Answer 2

First off, I would go to Iraq and tell the newly elected officals that, they had 6 months to get their country together. For the next six months, our troops would be doing nothing but killing terrorists in their country. At the end of six months, we will be leaving and if we have to come back, they can supply the sand and we can supply the heat and turn their country into a glass parking lot. Any country who thinks they want to support terrorism better think twice. Proof of their support and allowing training camps could cause their country to be reduced to embers and rubble. Is their hatred that strong to cause their people to be wiped out??

I would sit down and go down the list of countries. If one doesnt support us, we send them a nice letter telling them to go elsewhere for their money hand outs, we no longer support them. Those countries that do, we thank them and appreciate their friend ship, like England.

I would close the UN and kick out all those third world wanna be's. They can move the UN to Germany or France cause they have plenty of meeting places and lots of bleeding hearts. I would cut off funding to the UN because their word and actions dont do a thing for the US and they dont or cant backup what they put forth in a resolution. The empty building could be turned into a high rise apartment complex or office complex and save the taxpayers money.

ALL of our troops in foreign countrys that didnt support us, would be brought home and place on our borders to help with the illegal immagration. Our Neighbors to the north and south need to learn to respect us and what we stand for. Are you listening Canada??? Mexico???

They money we save with all of this, could pay off the national debt

Answer 3

If I were president we wouldn't be fighting the war in Iraq. I am an honest person, so I would not have lied to start the war.

2) The war on terror is attached to our foreign policies. If we were more diplomatic in the first place we wouldn't have to fight it.

One way I would fight it would be to eliminate scaring the daylights out of the American people. There is nothing they can do by being put on constant color-coded stages of alert. Except perhaps make the pharmecutical companies richer selling antidepressants and antianxiety medications.

Answer 4

I would make an apology to the world for this problem, ask for help, if it is not given I would pull out all of the troops and tell these iraqi whack jobs they have 30 days or they are all history.
God sometimes crazy needs crazy to control them ok?
2.I would stop funding Israel, thats how I would fight the war on terror.

Answer 5

I would put much, much, much, much, much more emphasis on building up the good troops and police of Iraq so that they can monitor themselves.
I agree with stephanie that we should stop funding Israel. No one likes Israel in the middle-east. The fact that we still supply them with weapons makes the middle-eastern countries hate us more.

Answer 6

I am on the side of Technical Difficulty. . .

The middle east would be on giant sheet of glass. As long as it survives, and it is in poverty and discontent, then the world will have extremists and terrorists from the ares.

Answer 7

turn everything into one big glass christmas ball.


then we'll have peace.