how many people think the war in iraq is unwinable?

Question

and if you think it is winable, spare me your hateful nonsense and just tell me a how it is possible.
if you think america is wining, then stop reading this and pick up a newspaper.
if you think we need to " change the course" to win. then what course would we need to take.

Answer 1

yes it is winnable as for how it is won well we need to get the terrorists out of the country and let them go from there helping them along when they need it. but how we do it i don't know its not my call. but there need to be changes made.

Answer 2

The war is 'winnable.' The fact of the matter is that the enemy has utterly failed in achieving any strategic goal. In the meantime Iraq has written and ratified a constitution, voted in a Parliament and is developing effective police and military forces to defend themselves with.

The Iraqi people need time. They are trying to do a lot - and learn how to do it as they go. Of course they will make mistakes and stumble.

Can you imagine what would have happened if we walked away from japan and Germany because they were not perfect after only four years?

The sad thing is that you need to look at more than the Media reporting and learn what is really happening in Iraq. have you not noticed that you only hear bad news and that good news is ignored?

Answer 3

The fact of whether it's winnable or not doesn't matter.

It's what do we do about it now that matters. In some form it is winnable.

If the solution is to pull all the troops out and that's stops the insurgencies, I consider that winnable. The result we've wanted all along would've happened.

If, you say, the insurgencies will not stop - how is that America's fault? They use us as an excuse for killing people. It won't stop because the troops are pulled out.

I actually want them pulled out to see how fast people get on our case because we're not there. I betcha it will not even take a day before that happens.

Answer 4

"winnable" is the wrong term to use in this situtation.
but it's a familiar & understandable one to us citizens
and that's why the administration sticks with it.

the "terrorists"...car bombers, etc. that keep attacking soldiers & citizens in the region
are a rouge element that do not represent the country (that is trying to maintain itself) "iraq", or it's citizens.


the us is a stabalizing presence in that region
without which the fledgling government of iraq
and it's terrorized citizens
(unused to thinking & acting like autonomous people)
would fracture under increasingly unfathomable horrors
of the despotic hordes
who use religion and anti-american sentiment for their selfish, destructive purposes.


to create a productive iraq (created by it's own citizens)
the terrorists' illegal acts should be punished.
yet, at this time, the police & political leaders of iraq
are unable to do that
w/enough scope to reassure it's citizens
(and the world)
that it can stand alone...w/no outside help


of course business is interested in the oil
but the us government isn't so deluded as to imagine that
it can "run" iraq.
it's to the us' interest to have iraq be self-governing.
a sound government makes for happy, productive citizens who are able to develop their own industries
and who recognize the benefits of welcoming investors from other countries.

happy, productive citizens do not want their society jeopardized by terrorist outlaws & will make sure they do not flourish in their midst.

right now, the us does a lot of that for them,
and inspires them to eventually
(sooner, rather than later, everyone hopes)
do it for themselves.



there are many elements that need to be considered
to rectify the situtation in iraq.
all of the card-holding players need a place at the table,
and they hysterics need to leave the game.

Answer 5

Well, The President of the Council of Foreign Relations, Henry Kissinger, and the Pentagon all find that the invasion and occupation of Iraq is not a "winnable" situation.

In my humble opinion, you can't "win" something that where there was no game. This is people's lives we are talking about. Trying to win and lose games is just another way to avoid talking about the human costs of fighting for lies.

Answer 6

it is not unwinable. World War two was won against Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That is the only way you can win. Nuke them or carpet bomb them and make sure that Cairo and Tehran get it good to. Destroy the power base and economy completely - you must inflict massive collateral damage to beat terrorists because they are like rats - where you only see one that means there are six. You must do the same to them as you did to the Japanese - clear them all out of the west too.

Answer 7

The Turks don't care, so why should we? The fact that this neighbor doesn't believe our withdrawal would lead to jihadist expansion that would threaten their secular nation shows how people who are really there in the Middle East don't fall for Fright Wing justifications for arrogant stupidity. The fact that Turkey is never mentioned by the pundits of either side shows that opinionators don't get their jobs through rational competition.

Answer 8

I don't think of wars as win or lose situations. Both sides lose...when it comes to lives. I think that our "goal" was to create a democratic-type government, which takes a huge amount of time and effort on both sides. The problem is that there are organizations that are totally opposed to this idea, and want things to remain how they were. Anytime you fight a war where religious and political beliefs are intertwined, nobody really wins, and the war takes years, sometimes never to be resolved.

We won't "win."

Answer 9

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Answer 10

I see it like the war on drugs. Sure you can put a small dent in it but out of that it seems to open avenues for more thus never getting anywhere. Now one politician, Charles Rangel of New York, want to propose re-enstating the draft. Any war is winable, but in this case are we prepared for the outfall of nuclear attacks? I personally dont want to see it.

Answer 11

we won the objectives of the war but now we are an occupying force and people are being killed as we are helping them take over.

if you want to see the progress or lack of winning an occupation go to Iraq and see it for your self.