2006-11-21 19:11:41 · 12 answers · asked by bhatkal 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I am iraqi myself, an ethnic Assyrian and christian. I think Annan is correct. Allied forces are now trapped in a situation that is fairly close (although not yet) a civil war. Iraq mirrors Yugoslavia very closely, it was cobbled together after WW1 by the allies, lumping together disparate races such as Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Turcoman, Yezidi, Shabaks, Mandeans & Armenians, & different religions Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, Christians, Sabeans, Yezidists.All under 70 years of brutal Sunni Arab control, which was put there by the British. When you take this away, all the enmities come to the surface (like Yugoslavia), and you have civil war, helped along by Al Quaeda, Iran and Syria. The US failed to realise this situation would arise, and is now caught in the middle. The vast majority of killing in Iraq is done by iraqis againdt other Iraqis. The only way out is to follow Yugoslavia, and break it up. Sunni Arab, Shia Arab, Kurds, Assyrians(incl Chaldeans) & Turcomans should all be given their own provinces and eventually independence, which was promised during and after WW1, but reneged on.
2006-11-21 22:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Some say the insurgents and the US are both trapped in a cycle and don't know how to get out of it.
The insurgents think if they stop their violence the US may not leave, but the US cannot leave if it looks like they leaving Iraq to civil war and genocide. World opinion would be worse than it already is.
2006-11-21 19:23:17 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sadly, yes. I say sadly because I have no wish to see anyone killed - most of those US soldiers are poor kids just trying to get through college and have no ill will towards the Iraqi people. It's a pity that the US government still thinks that guns and bombs are an answer to the world's problems - they're getting a taste of their own medicine big time.
2006-11-21 19:22:58 · answer #3 · answered by mini metro 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The United States is in danger of finding combat forces trapped in a civil war that they cannot prevent, control, or win.
2006-11-21 19:20:07 · answer #4 · answered by sugar candy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well i wont say they are trapped, they however must do their best to leave Iraq in a better state than they found it, and that is proving to a more difficult task than they visualised.!!!
Civil war is a fact for the Iraqis, i hope things get better for them.!!!
Perhaps once Saddam is dead,who knows.!!!
2006-11-21 19:55:25 · answer #5 · answered by JAM123 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Kofi is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Suppose the US left: how long would it take for the Taliban or al Qaeda to take over at least part of the country to prepare more nefarious plots?
2006-11-21 19:21:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the biggest failure of the UN isn't something that the Secretary ordinary can restoration. the biggest failure of the UN is purely one thing that the US can restoration because of the fact the subject is the full dismiss that our government has for the United countries. How can we predict different countries (like North Korea and Iran) to conform with the the UN, if united statesa. itself would not comply?
2016-10-17 09:15:35 · answer #7 · answered by gaffke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think so.ain't we seen this happen before.Vietnam were they had to leave the country quickly and in chaos.but the big difference is that Iraq as got oil.until that is secure.i think.Britain and America will stay until. they have some sort of order.
2006-11-21 19:27:35 · answer #8 · answered by peter o 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think he's just mad that he's not getting the money for bootleg Iraqi oil as he did before we removed Saddam
2006-11-21 20:53:46 · answer #9 · answered by .45 Peacemaker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That seems a fair statement
2006-11-21 19:21:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋