Is the Conservative Ego Getting in the Way of a Real Solution in Iraq?

Question

From the first week of the occupation and Rumsfeld's denial of wide-spread looting. lawlessness, and chaos, it seems that administration policy is more driven by denial and ego (saving face) than seeking solutions for failed policies.

Of course the conservative cheerleaders here at home just ape that mentality in their support for what anyone with eyes, and ears, and a working brain, can see is a bad situation that's getting worse in Iraq and in the region.

An example of "pride persists during the fall"?

Answer 1

I think arrogance, ignorance, stubbornness, greed and stupidity are the major road blocks in finding a solution for Iraq. These personality flaws are not conservative or liberal in nature, but flow freely to the uncontrollable ego's of poor leaders. These leaders are incapable of admitting their errors. Their mindset is to save face in a world that has already condemned their transgressions. Ultimately, we will find a solution, but it will not be a real solution! There will be no "real solution" because we still do not understand the problem we created!

Answer 2

I can not say it loudly enough: Y E S
We have a President so incapable of admitting he's wrong, so egotistical and so stubborn that he will wait, while continuing to get reports of further casualites every day, until he can figure out a plan that doesn't look as though he took the advice of any Democrat or the Iraq Study Group, or anyone who has publicly disagreed with him. It's obscene and it's unpardonable.

Answer 3

you're lacking the point. Bush not in any respect tried to cover up or deceive the american human beings. it is also very in all likelihood that staring at this attack in authentic time Bush may have made the alternative to set up infantrymen into the area to strive against the terrorists and may have tried to maintain the lives of those who were killed. the tale about this being a "demonstration because of a youtube video that were given out of hand" develop right into a lie. Obama knew it, Hillary knew it, Panetta knew it, and Susan Rice knew it and yet they coated for Obama as a fashion to target to help him win reelection. the easy fact is that Obama did not opt for to admit to a terrorist attack on Benghazi contained in the surprising weeks of his marketing campaign. to positioned it yet otherwise.. Obama is a mendacity, self-serving, un-presidential individual who does no longer deserve yet another 4 years. u . s . of america can't take yet another 4 years of his failed guidelines.

Answer 4

So what's the real solution?

Negotiate with Syria? You mean the regime who assassinates Lebanese Government Officials, who funds Hezbollah against Israel?

Negotiate with Iran? A renegade country that executes suspected gays just for being who they are. A country that executes 16 year old girls for being accused of having sex. A country feverish building a nuclear weapon. A country that has repeatedly talked about the destruction of Israel. A country that just held a conference denying the holocaust.

These are the solutions?

Answer 5

They think that it they say something loud enough and enough times that everyone will believe it instead of doing research and coming to their own conclusions. And the scary thing is, is it works on a lot of people.

Answer 6

There is no "real solution" in Iraq. The reality is Bedlam, chaos and dissolution.

Answer 7

I don't believe there IS a real solution at this point.
They got us into this mess and can not seem to take responsibility for it.

Answer 8

No it has nothing to do with ego. This would bother me except I know you can only see the world through your own mindset and then just come up with reasons to justify it.

Answer 9

It has to be way better than a losing mentality of "cut and run"in nothing is achieved but failure.

Answer 10

I guess the Kurds are just stroking my ego.
Since you seem to be original, what is it you suggest we do at this point?