2007-01-08 15:13:58 · 14 answers · asked by treejamin 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Yeah, if your trying to kill them off too.
2007-01-08 15:19:53 · answer #1 · answered by Weasel Girl 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's a gamble. There is a chance that a good buildup of troops will help to stabilise the capital. The problem is that the insurgencies may pull everything they've got into the capital to cope with it. Conventional armies have trouble fighting these kind of guerrilla wars, and the surge move may cause the 'Fortress Bahgdad' scenario CentCom was worried about before the start of the war. If you pull them into renewed major combat, there's a good chace you could lose at this point, and be forced to try to hold the line around the green zone. This would effectively lose the war for you.
2007-01-08 15:42:15 · answer #2 · answered by Mabus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The war in Iraq isn't something that can be won. Troops were sent and and under government orders ravaged an already distressed nation. To pull the troops out now would leave the country even more devastated but to send more troops would be useless and could be compared to condemning them to a death sentence.
2007-01-08 16:21:05 · answer #3 · answered by phoenix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Help what? Win? Stay the Course? Chart a New Direction? Dream up new platitudes? Serve as a few thousand new targets for IEDs?
What are our troops doing in Iraq now?
How many U.S. troops will it take to kill Iraq into Democracy?
2007-01-08 15:23:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Only If they are fully trained, about an extra 8 months of special training, ied, principles of Islam, Arab lanagage, hundreds of minior details.
You have the best equiped troops in the world, bur far from the best trained. I worked alongside US Army and Marines, good morale, great but untapped potential
2007-01-08 15:44:42 · answer #5 · answered by Sid B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Its too late for that. They tried to do this war on the cheap. By only sending in 150,000 troops to take and control an entire country. That alone goes to show the stupidity and the lack of leadership skills this administration has. In 91 during the first gulf war it took 500,000 troops to kick Iraq out of Kuwait....now how on earth did they think they would be able to take control of Iraq with 1/3rd of that amount?
2007-01-08 15:20:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
i have NO idea where Irac is...
if one is trying to be philosophical about such issues, one should study more about Iraq.
Militarily, TYPICALLY overwhelming numbers and superior arms tip the advantage in your favor.
Saying that, i would remind everyone of the former USSR's result when they invaded Afghanistan and the U.S in Viet Nam.
2007-01-08 15:32:04 · answer #7 · answered by copenhagenskin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just what we need, a thousand more troops returning home
wounded or dead - the part Bush & co. couldn't forsee.
No, it's far too late to help now.
2007-01-08 15:23:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we are trying to control the worlds population yes! I dont think too many moms will be content with that though.
2007-01-08 15:28:10 · answer #9 · answered by DJ C 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's WAY too late for that. they should have done that a couple years ago. it would have helped to get a swift victory. but it won't now.
2007-01-08 15:22:36 · answer #10 · answered by jyl l 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋