Is there a duty to rebuild a country where the people hate us?

Question

The mess in Iraq has more to do with leftist idealogy than anything else. Its the left that screetchs the religious doctrine of "duty to rebuild" upon us, as if we were God himself.

After the Afgan v. Soviet conflict, it was the left that cast blame on America for the poverty of the Islamic country after the end of the conflict. Why? Because we didnt rebuild it all!

Sure, theres more to it, in Iraq there is a concern of "power vaccum" but I would simply respond with the reality check about Islamic culture in general. Are supposed "best allies", the Saudis, are the life blood of the Jihadist movement. Turkey? What have they done for America? Their people hate our guts, they have plenty of terrorist infrastucture, and their culture is just as intolerant of non-muslims as any other Islamic country.

Why not be rid of this whole idea of good Islamists vs bad ones, and simply face the fact that Islam itself is the problem. No need to help any Muslims once we understand this...

Answer 1

Well, we have three options:

1. Kill all Muslims, and then there can be no Muslim terrorists.

2. Create democracies in the Middle East, where they will be allies instead of enemies.

3. Leave the Middle East, and give them more time to think of ways to kill us.

We all know the route the liberals want to take (remember EVERY ONE is screaming to leave Iraq), and the second one OBVIOUSLY isn't working, so we may have to resort to the first one.

The problem is, there ARE a few good Muslims, and we need to find a way to let them convert to other religions, without letting the terrorists out of our sight. Then, we nuke the Middle East until there is nothing left, and we set our sights on N. Korea.

Answer 2

First off, you obviously don't know any Muslims. If you believe the problem is Islam, you have no real understanding of that religion. Plenty of horrible stuff has been done in the name of Christianity, yet you don't see the world damning all Christians for their faith. So before you ask your question you may want to get your facts straight...

Now I'm assuming in your main question your talking about rebuilding Iraq. The reason that we have an obligation to rebuild the country is because we're the ones who destroyed their infrastructure in the first place! We created the power vacuum. I'm not going to defend Saddam as a leader or even as a human being, but there are plenty of worse dictators in the world. We removed the former government, disbanded their security forces, destroyed their power plants, roads, etc... We have an obligation to put things back together as best we can.

I'm not going to comment on anything else you said since your statement was rambling and incoherent. I'll only recommend that you leave your little bubble and go talk to some people from those areas of the world, talk to some Muslims, and open your mind just a teeny-tiny crack.

Answer 3

Interesting idea that it is the Leftists that are causing the problems when it is the Right that wanted the invasion of Iraq and will not leave Iraq. The Left (democrats in the US) would leave Iraq in a heartbeat, if given a chance to vote.

I would suggest that the bigger issue is that Iraqis are not behind rebuilding their country. They wouldn't or couldn't get rid of Saddam and have now had their freedom handed to them. They basically don't know what to do with it, other than to become a clone of Iran or kill everyone that doesn't believe like they do. The best thing would be to just divide the country up by religion and/or tribal groups and let them be. The odds are they will kill each other, regardless.

Answer 4

During World War II the Japanese were told we would destroy their entire civilization & they hated us just as much any terrorist. However we rebuilt their economy & now live in freindship with them. Regardless of what is happening in Iraq we need to rebuild, otherwise this war will never end. If we truly believe in spreading the idealogy of freedom then we're obligated to help rebuild their nation.

Answer 5

So what you're declaring is that the right wing christians, with the help of way of going to conflict, tear different international locations aside and the left wing christians positioned those international locations decrease back at the same time back. Christians confident are an uncomplicated lot.

Answer 6

If we were forced to destroy infrastructure in order to win the conflict, I can see the logic in rebuilding these things once. If however, after we rebuild them once, the insurgents or terrorists destroy them again, it is no longer our responsibility. Lay the cost of rebuilding onto the ones who did the damage.

Answer 7

The question should be; must we re-build after we destroyed it? Iraq was not destroyed before the U.S.A decided to go in. Iam sorry ,but some things must be told with truthfull words.

Answer 8

I'm not sure that this is a leftist thing - Colin Powell was the one advocating the policy that "We broke it, we bought it" in Iraq and he is a fairly prominent Republican. I'd agree though, that it is dubious how helpful the United States can be in situations where we are not welcome.

Answer 9

I'm glad I'm not the only one that sees this very GOOD post. I say try to rebuild it and if they don't help(like boycotts and stuff) then just leave it for them to fix. All we can do is try and if those guys don't want to help then it's no longer our problem(And I guess we should take some oil with us for our efforts)...


edit I agree grety

Answer 10

Yeah, if only we weren't so incredibly stupid to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11.