how do you feel about the situation? Seriously, pull out or stay the course.
God bless you all
2006-12-21 03:33:19 · 10 answers · asked by 3 nails 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I was in Baghdad for 11 months. I don't know what is the solution is at this point. We obviously never should have attacked a nation that hadn't attacked us first. And, why did we attack without a Declaration of War from the congress.
If Iraq was shown to have been harboring the terrorists that attacked us on 11 September (which they weren't), we should have demanded that they turn them over to us. If they refused, we should have declared war, and taken them.
The whole idea of UN sanctions is a farce, and an insult to the US military. We are not the servants of the UN. The purpose of the US military is to protect the US. Saddam was not a nice guy, but he hadn't attacked us.
I think if we minded our own business, and kept out of the affairs of other nations, we never would have been attacked by the terrorists. But now we have, and we have to get them.
There is no reason to fight an army when you have the capability to take out a government. We need to find out where the leadership of the terrorist factions are, and destroy them. We need to infiltrate their organizations, and we need to put a price on the heads of their leadership, in gold, not dollars or dinars.
Let's get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. We need to restore our sovereignty. And then, let's beware of foreign entanglements.
2006-12-21 06:38:00 · answer #1 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an Iraq and Afghanistan Vet I can tell you we are making many tangible improvements and moving these two countries forward day by day, but it takes time (and that's without outside influences preventing us from achieving more). We need to stay the course and make long term impact. Many people don't realize we were in Japan until almost 1952 (seven years after the surrender and wasn't fighting an insurgency) and we were in Germany for almost 8 years "reconstructing" that country. It will get better with time despite what you hear on TV. God Bless America! Great Question!
2006-12-21 11:47:03 · answer #2 · answered by Drop Zone 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have come to realize denial for some people is second nature!
Most people do not look beyond the superficial, or know how to.
Most people also do not know history especially of the middle east!
Nothing good will come of this war and Iraq will divide along sectarian lines.
This I have seen and experienced for myself!
Anything else is wishful thinking and alot, I say again alot of people will be dissapointed in the next two years.
To compare Iraq to germany and Japan after WWII, are you people nuts?!
Wake up and smell the cofee, Iraq was a social construct of the british empire! Japan and germany were mostly homogenous societies in the broader sense (although not a hundred percent homogenous), way before the british and european powers imposed their will in the middle east after the fall of the ottoman empire.
peeople need to come out of the clouds!
The vain.-- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.
from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 385, R.J. Hollingdale transl
It is a grave insult to human intelligence, when one tries to argue the point that the media is responsibl for the war going badly and phrases like "bad news sell," as if the few measly good acts of reconstruction (although I had yet to see one town reconstructed when I was there), could outway the tremendous amount of killing and destruction going on.
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.
from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.121, Walter Kaufmann transl..
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Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.
from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.110, Walter Kaufmann transl..
What kind of logic is that? thay is some crazy s.h.i.t!
2006-12-21 12:06:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pull out. When I was over there, I had direct contact with an average of 200 Iraqi citizens every day. We had translators who were Iraqi that worked for us. My team and I spoke to them a lot about what was going on, and how they felt. Although they liked us as individuals and we became friends, they said it does more harm for us being there than not being there. Our presence alone is what creates more terrorists. We don't mean to, it's just how we handle things. While on convoys, we own the road. If someone attempts to come near us, we shoot them. This is a safety response from us due to past events. This of course, frustrates the average Iraqi citizen, and teaches them to hate us more. It will never end.
Iraq is like Vietnam. There is no way we can completely win with military might alone. We need fewer forces and more diplomatic intervention.
2006-12-21 11:50:42 · answer #4 · answered by rawlings12345 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Stay the course. It is amazing how many people think that this is something that can be done overnight.
The Iraqi people need time.
BTW there is a lot of progress that is being made that you do not hear about because: 'Bad news sells.'
2006-12-21 12:51:37 · answer #5 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pull out, i just returned from the baghdad area. What a hole. Let them have at each other, they are fighting some worthless religious civil war anyway. We have no business there anymore.
2006-12-21 13:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband is over there, and most of them so badly want to come home to be with their families, but when being over there you form a little family of your own (they are like brothers), and my husband has had some friends die over there and he wants to stay for them, the soldiers do not want to see them die for nothing.
2006-12-21 11:37:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Irrelevant question. (I've answered one like this before). If you think about the politics and don't do your job your life and the lives of the soldiers around you (as well as Iraqi civilians) are put in danger.
2006-12-21 11:41:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
My boyfriend just got home. He thinks that since we are already there they need to finish the job. Of course he wants to stay home and wants all his friends to be home as well, but he supports what he does.
2006-12-21 11:45:21 · answer #9 · answered by averyanne77 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have lost too many friends here to just "cut and run".... it would mean they died for nothing....
Dying for nothing irritates me....
I'm staying until it is over
2006-12-21 11:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by wolf560 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋