they could prevent Syria, Iran or Saudi Arabia from getting involved in the civil war that would surly erupt and once there's a winner of the civil war everything can go back to normal with a democratic Iraqi national govt. running the new Iraq.
2007-01-02 13:20:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You DON'T need troops to enforce a no fly zone you need planes which the US has a ton of. When Saddam was still in power he didn't go near the Iraqi Shia or Iraqi Kurds when the US had the no fly zones in place. If the US started carpet bombing the Syrian & Iranian borders w/ Iraq foreign troops would slow to a trickle. & as far as the civil war between the Iraqi Sunni & Shia let them fight it out to see who wins. The majority democratically elected US friendly Iraqi national govt. Shia will most likely win and then it's over w/o one dead US troop. If anyone has a better idea please let me know.
2007-01-02 14:31:25 · update #1
Unfortunately we can't seem to stop them from the ground. I doubt we can stop them from the air.
2007-01-02 13:23:37 · answer #1 · answered by Stand 4 somthing Please! 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How would that prevent other countries from getting involved in the outcome of a civil war there?
All it would do is control airspace.
We are occupying the country now AND controlling all of the airspace and we STILL can't keep other countries from getting involved!
I'm not necessarily for staying in Iraq but what you describe is a very unlikely scenario. The entire country is going to continue to explode until the power vacuum is filled by a powerful governing force. This country and the middle east in general is used to powerful totalitarian rule. That is the only thing that is going to restore order there. Ironically.... a dictator or a harsh military government is probably the only thing that will quell this conflict.
The pie in the sky democracy dream is absurd and it is never going to work for 1000 different reasons.
2007-01-02 21:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fly zones protected the Shi'ia in the south and teh Kurds to the north. The population we have to protect now is the Sunni population, and the only way to do that is on the ground. They live intermingled with the Shi'ia in the most populated area of the country, and if we aren't there to protect them they will get stomped out by Maliki and Sadr.
2007-01-02 21:27:00 · answer #3 · answered by brickity hussein brack 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A giagantic problem is that the "no fly zone" can't be enforced with out some one shooting down any who are flying there...this will result in warfare. If everyone followed this it might work, but humanity is far to stubborn to do that.
2007-01-02 21:28:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are not American problems. Since when were you elected emperors of the Middle East? If you kept your nose out of other people's business, there wouldn't be so much trouble in the world.
2007-01-02 21:28:52 · answer #5 · answered by The Gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think it wouldn't be a theocratic government running Iraq after the fighting was over, if ever it would be.
2007-01-02 21:32:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you pull out the troops how do you enforce the no fly zones?
if you really believe what you say you need to start reading news papers and history books
2007-01-02 21:24:58 · answer #7 · answered by Insane 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
then they would walk across the border. that's how most insurgents enter Iraq.
2007-01-02 21:23:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋