Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran etc. .vs. Pakistan - Saudi Arabia. Where is the deference?

Question

USA invaded Iraq for 2 reasons.
1) Saddam was a dictator and people sufferred.
2) To find and destroy any kind of illegal weapons.
Up to here it is ok. You agree or not.
US ally in the area is Pakistan:
There is the same kind of dictatorship (or worse!) as there was
in Iraq with Saddam. Also Pakistan is known to be a country
with nuclear & chemical weapons.
So where is the diference of US enemies and US allies ?

The same question about Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.
No illegal weapons there but crude dictatorships.
Those two countries are a possible hide for OssamaBinLaden.
Places where live radical islamists (possible terrorists)
Once again where is the deference.

Attention : I am interested only in aswers from people that say
Yes to the war, not from those who say "WAR IS FOR OIL".

Answer 1

The U.S. has a long-standing policy that a military dictatorship is better than communism or some other extreme form of government. We are willint to accept the dictatorships in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan because they are allied to us and help us maintain our strategic interests in the area. By constrast, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran all have dictatorships but are NOT willing to help us.

The former dictatorship of the Shah of Iran was willing to help us, so we supported that dictatorship, but the religious fundamentalist dictatorship of the Ayatollahs is unwilling to help us, so we do not support them. It's that simple.

Under the Carter Doctrine, any attempt to interfere with the sovereignty of any Persian Gulf state is considered a violation of U.S. vital interests. Therefore any state (such as Saudi Arabia) that helps us maintain this Doctrine is our ally, even if we disagree with their political system.

Outsiders can debate whether this policy is right or wrong. There are good arguments either way. But that is the current official policy of the U.S. government.

Answer 2

There is a lot of difference between Pakistan and Iraq. For 1, although there is a military ruler in Pakistan but there is a fully functional Parliament and National assembly, therefore, you can not call it a dictatorship at all.

Secondly Pakistan is a declared nuclear weapons country, there are two points here:

1. Pakistan does not pose any threat to USA or its allies.
2. Since Pakistan is a nuclear weapons state, so simply forget about it being attacked. Just imagine what the response would be...... USA and Russia never went to war because of the concept of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), same is the case here. USA dropped atomic weapons on Japan in WW-II because Japan did not have these weapons, if Japan had nuclear/atomic weapons, the US would never have dared.

Coming over to Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. First Afghanistan, earlier they were fighting with Russia, then since 1989 there was civil war, no government or Law. Whereas, Saudia Arabia is a country where some claim crude dictatorship (I don’t agree with it), but just look at the country, one of the lowest crime rates in the world !!! Rule of law and rite of the government....etc, so again no match between the two countries.

The most important thing to understand is that the policies of USA are not consistent, which is creating hatred against it in the third world countries. USA declared Pakistan a rouge and corrupt state upon the culmination of Russia-Afghanistan war and imposed sanctions on it, now its their best ally. USA declared Saudia Arabia a "Crude Dictatorship", then when Saddam attacked Kuwait, USA sent its troops to protect the "Crude Dictatorship". What you really need to look into is the policies of USA.

By the way, the "War is for Oil" and no other reason. It was not planned after Saddam attacked Kuwait or 9/11, it was planned in early 1970s, just go through the US Military Staff College Research and Service papers of that era.......

SAY NO TO CRIME AND TERRIROSM, LOVE AND PEACE FOR HUMANITY

Answer 3

Iraq has been successfully democratized now so it is out of the debate but the defference between the enemies and allies would be a very thin line and thats gotta make it tough to defferentiate.
From what i see it would be the fact that the dictators over in the ally countries are friendly and nonthreatening so they dont have bad intentions and try to do their best to help us out in catching these terrorists and allow us to inspect their weapon facilities
but the enemies they are all the time talkin about destroying us and Israel (one of our oldest allies) and not allowing weapon inspectors to check out the weapons facilities which is breakin international law and they do other such illegal actions which cause harm to peaceful states like Japan is being threatened by North Korea.

Answer 4

Holden: my friend u didn't know the history of results between Iraq - Saudi Arabia . Iraq was beat Saudi in very easy 7 - 1 & 5 - 0 & 5 - 1 etc.. last beat was in in Doha Dec. 2005 Iraq beat Saudi 5 - 1 but u know the wars. ROoOROoO: really ur funny !!! u insult my team Iraq then said: after that we all Arabs !!. just check the history and see who was lost by other 7 - 1 & 5 - 1 etc... if u have best Attack (12 Goals) in this tournamebt Iraq have best Goalie & defense (just 2 goals in 5 matches 1 comes by Penalty with Thailand) Good Luck to IRAQ & SAUDI ARABIA but since u began i tell u this fact: we will give ur team some lessons in real soccer like we did that with Australia . like Nashat Akeram give this lessons in ur country. GOOD LUCK IM ARABIAN AND I CAN"T FEEL LIKE LOSER IF ARABIAN TEAM BE THE CHAMP Edit: Shaima: this is the deleted Question: Arabs the Kings of Asian Cup: IRAQ beat Korea & Saudi beat Japan: Iraq Vs Saudi in final?

Answer 5

yes we invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein and to destroy weapons of mass destruction those were Bush's primary objectives of the war in Iraq

Answer 6

yes Pakistan is full of terrorists its also a jump point for all the English Pakistanis who want to fight in Iraq & afgan

Answer 7

Δεν εχω ιδεα.... Eγω ειμαι απο τους ανθρωπουw που λενε ''WAR IS FOR OIL''