What would happen if what happened to Iraq happened to America?

Question

Imagine a forign country much stronger then America. They destroy it's infastructure. Including water, electricity, government and military to name a few. They fire everyone in the government, police and military. Displace millions of people and kill hundreds of thousands. Enter the country and try to rebuild the utilities themselves but mainly just give lots of money to companies that pay thier politicians. Occupy with a military that doesn't speak English and considers everyone a potential threat to them.
Please just try to consider this question without telling me why it was right to do what we did. I don't argue that something had to be done but consider what we did as if it happened to you. Also the fact that we are free and they aren't isn't the important one when you consider that the society was functioning in the mannors discribed but now isn't.
So what would life be like in America for you and your family?

Answer 1

There are a couple flaws in your reasoning.

The first is that what is happening in Iraq cannot and is not already happening in the US. You speak of being invaded by people who do not speak English and who distrust every citizen of this nation. Oops that's already happened to the US. Many illegals, Hispanic and Asian illegals in particuler do not speak English. They are not here to be American. Some Hispanic groups are openly at war with the US and are actively attempting to overthrow the US Gov. There are several million illegals here in the US. Less than a million US troops in Iraq. I think some of the illegals here are better armed than our troops in Iraq.

lets examine the economy. Hmm out economic infrastructure through the use of bribes of US politicians is gone. The official unemployment rate is a farce. The real unemployment rate, that is the one that counts the people who've given up looking for work and are hiding in disability, taken early retirement or jumped into college to hide from a tight job market is the worst it's been in decades. Why? Outsourcing of jobs, primarily to China and India. China in a new cold war uses slave labor, unfair marketing tactics and flat out theft to attack the US economy. Bribes pass through American politician's hands to ensure the damage is done with completeness. So we HAVE been economically invaded. Our infrastructure is being destroyed as we speak. If we were to go to war with China we could not build spare parts or replacement gear. Our standard of living has dropped noticably. Our institutions are failing. The influx of illegals combined with the failing economy and litigious athmosphere has created a health care crisis. The standard of health care despite dramatic advances in heath care is actually decreasing. Millions are uninsured because benifits in a tight job market are an unnecessary expense. The cost of health care has skyrocketed because of frivolous law suites, higher numbers of people on insurance and medicare/medicaide which dramatically increase the cost of health care for all and especially the weight of illegals who are drowning the system but pay nothing back to it.

In California, the first of many states to experience this there was rolling black outs. These same black outs will be visiting the rest of the country soon enough. California has failed to build more power infrastructure and the threat to injury to birds may even shut down California's best clean energy (windmill farms). The toll of supporting California has created economic hardship as far away as Texas where we saw our energy bills jump to pay for power production siphoned off to California. As other states continue the same kinds of policies that hit California we will see our access to cheap power gradually reduced until many are living without power for more time than they have power.

Our water supplies are becoming seriously contaminated. Efforts to clean them often only change what has contaminated them not the fact that they are contaminated. Environmentalists IF they bother to make a sound generally harp on unproductive and unrealistic policies. The so called Conservitives won't even acknowledge there is a problem.

So in short, Iraqi's really don't have it much different. We just had a much higher standard of living to start with. So the decline is slower. A little less noticed.

Answer 2

so lets look at your logic here... you say that leaving a murderous dictator in power is the right thing to do because if it happened to america we wouldnt like it? This is beyond absurd. there has to be world oversight of governments. Whether you like it or not. Somebody that has a stability and a willingness to hold peoples hands has to lead or the void left from not having one would be filled by someone that is looking to do the same thing for ACTUAL harm.

you obviously dont understand the power stuggle between good and evil.. and how it takes the good to keep the evil at bay.

and your points about "its not if it needed to be done or not" makes no sense. that is the basis behind your question. Without addressing that you question has no feet to stand on. Any change for people of a country some may not like it some may. some people are profiting from dictatorship and oppression some dont. There is no Utopia.

Answer 3

you have been assigned the subject rely 'what if u.s. loses the conflict in Iraq'??? it relatively is ill why could somebody assign this challenge? There should not be a 'what if we lose' there ought to easily be a 'whilst we win'. The doubt some human beings have in our united states of america is rediculous. anybody ought to have self belief in our armed forces reason im sorry yet, no person in the international has a extra useful armed forces that the USA and on no account will.

Answer 4

Aren't you forgetting that the infrastructure in iraq is better now than it was before we came?

And back to your question, it would be alot more difficult to "Take Over" because our people aren't starving or forced into the military. In addition to that, besides the military forces that are stationed inside the CONUS, we have many armed civilians that I believe would not just lay down there arms for a foriegn military. They would fight as well.

Answer 5

I think its more complicated than that.

If it was America, I guess the blacks would be the rulers of the country and by a single dictator, whose word is death.

All the ethnic groups would be fighting each other but for the intervention of the dictator from the powerful minoirty. (The blacks would have all the money and the best weapons and best trained soldiers.)

Answer 6

then america would be a hopeless destoyed unheathly place.

Answer 7

If we were under a dictatorship and were being killed because we're different, (like what happened in Iraq), the I would welcome it.