Are we winning the war in Iraq, or starting one in the middle-east?

Answer 1

loosing are you guys made world a hell.

and you guys never ever win

wait for some time young indians will take a charge of world and bring peace on earth

Answer 2

War in the Middle East has been since King Salaman and Ghangis Khan terrorized the Ottoman Empire. The problem with today's perspective in the Middle East is the same it was 40 years or so ago, when the Brits and the French took a magic marker and decided to colonize the various territories. Lybia/Syria first language use to be French. The Arabs and Persians do not want to go back to that. You do remember the French Foreign Legions don't you. If when you are 14, your first summer job is to don a military uniform and a rifle, and patrol your streets, it stands to reason that when you are 21, you are indoctrinated in the possibility of war. So it Assad was such a tyrant, why do the people in Syria all free medical and education. Many know 5-6 languages, and can read English and write it, and we Americans can't even speak one. In addition, the largest epidemic is lack of health care and illiteracy in America. Imagine that in the 21st century we still have illiteracy.

I think as an American born here and a product of the civil rights movement, I can see why they are fighting for their existence. Just like Martin Luther King had to school the Kenndy's in how to do the right thing, Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan,etc. will have to do the same to the Brits and Americas.
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However, it is a new day in the Middle East, because most of the young leaders have been educated in France and are not just tyrants, and they also will not be bullied or acccept threats. Assad is an Opthamologists (MD trained in France). Dah! A doctor who takes the Oath. Iran's President has a Ph.D. and is a college professor. Now in this country this may not mean anything to you, but the richest people in the Middle East are the educators in the peoples minds.

We must learn to reason. Bush is doing what he should have done when he had the momentum after 9-11, made a trip to the Middle East and sat down with all the leaders and talk about real solutions not solutions for the Brits or Americans. How can you decide 20 years ago (Wolfwitz War) that you are going to democratize the middle east without first talking to those that you are going to democratize. Don't they have something to say about it.

Communication can solve all problems if we come in love, respect and honor for another person ability to voice their opinion and their wants. Cheney was forced to go to Saudi Arabia by the powers to be. No longer can Cheney hide behind the Republican Senate and House- all gone. Bush was forced to go to Kuwait, no more hiding behind terroism. (Lame ducks trying to secure free oil passage before he dries up). The people do not agree that he has made this country safer. So to conclude, I wonder what impression we as Americans have left on the innocent children of the Middle East with our struggles to control IRAQ (Wet dog taking a bath), the killings, the bombing. Today, we have a opportunity to leave a lasting impression for the generations to come. Not one of war, but one of peace, and the willingness and flexibility to let people have the freedom to be individuals if it is moral, legal and good for all mankind.

Answer 3

We want to keep the wars brewing in the middle-east, what we want least is a unified middle-eastern arabian country; something most Muslims really want. I'm sure the reasoning behind our presence has something to do with staging for a war in Iran and balancing out the Iranian-Syrian conspiracy. It's none of our business, but what the hell, we've got the bombs and the guns, why not throw our weight around and control the world without controlling it? It's not like we get a say, anyway. Voting never solved anything.

Answer 4

Bush's desire to control the oil in Iraq has taken a country ruled by a dictator that we supported in nearly every way, turned it to rubble and killed more than 500,000 of its citizens. Iraq happens to be one of the Holy places in Islam, and our presence there is deeply offensive to many Arabs. But we went and are there, and the house of cards is falling apart. The war is over, and we are now talking about our occupation of the country,trying to mold it into what we want. Every indicator suggests that our occupation is a complete failure and the citizens, many of whom are ones we favor, are more and more asking us to leave now.
Whatever ones views of why we went in, it is not so easy to figure out what to do now. Nobody wants the oil in Iraq to be under the control of extremists, with them having to revenue from the oil to do much more significant mischief. If we stay, it could get much worse that it is now. Now we can't leave, and we can't stay. Bush/Cheney have put us all in a terrible mess for which there are no easy solutions at all. Along with Israel, it could erupt into WW III.

Answer 5

Hate to say it, because I love my country. But Bush is stumbling through foreign affairs like a drunken man on an icy street. If Republicans are honest, at least with themselves, they can see by now that we entered Iraq for the wrong reasons, without establishment strategic goals, and without an endgame. Thus, when our powerful millitary removed Hussein, the inevitable power vaccum arose. You cannot force democracy on people at gunpoint. Bush underestimated the enemy, and now the war has lasted longer than WWII and we are further away from "victory" (whatever that means) than ever.

Answer 6

we began a civil war in Iraq that has the potential to inflame the arab world, which may be the hidden adgenda! We can not win a civil war inwhich we are not the country in the midst of it, we can only lose

Answer 7

Neither, we are definitely not winning, and maybe even not helping... but the warring in the middle east has been around thousands of years before we even existed.

Answer 8

I agree with yoda with one difference... that when we entered Iraq, we did have long term plans.. but all plans centered on the US being seen as liberators.... not invaders.

Answer 9

When the "decider",decided to take out the "enforcer", all the wild dogs were set free,and now there's no "fixer" anywhere in sight

Answer 10

Iraq is just one battle in the war on terror. I suggest that you watch the documentary called "Obsession" It's about radical Islam's was against the west!t wiil show you what the free world is up against. You will see that this is a war we must not lose!