Our attempts to determine the form of government in Afghanistan and Iraq are no different than in Vietnam ?

Question

Our attempts to determine the form of government in Afghanistan and Iraq are no different than in Vietnam (true or false and why)?

Answer 1

False.

Simply because in both Afghanistan and Iraq we allowed the people there to select the type of government they wanted.

Answer 2

False.

Saddam was a murderous dictator who gassed hundreds of his own people and put thousands into mass graves, his reign of terror included killing and terrorizing any dissenting voice, and any who opposed him were promptly shot by his guard.

His attempts to invade other nations were foiled by the US, but Saddam repeatedly violated international law, peace treaties, and UN resolutions. If he were more powerful, he would have been the next Hitler.

Any overthrow of his regime is comparable to taking out Adolf Hitler's third reich before the invasion of Poland. The world is spared from his brutality now that he is in prison.

The "civil war" or "insurgency" in Iraq is mostly made up of foreign interlopers from Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Al-Qaeda and many other terror organizations are attempting to capitalize on the relative instability of the nation because of the regime change. However, most Iraqi citizens and the Iraqi government want US troops to stay and help defend their newly freed state, despite US media propoganda to the contrary.

That is not to say there were not mistakes leading up to and during the occupation, however, seeing as millions of people are now free and a brutal aggressive dictator is out of power, businesses are opening, power has been restored to the cities, the government is restored to the people, hospitals and schools are being built, police and security forces are being trained, and the level of US casualties is very low for a 4 year war, the negative news coverage is drastically disproportionate and overwhelmingly negative compared to the actual reality of the situation.

That said, it is time to bring the Iraq forces to full strength and take our troops home.