is he going to talk to?
The terrorists are not a government, they're thugs and murderers.
A political solution is only good if you have someone who will listen.
2007-01-10 12:35:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I would have to agree with you. Political solutions screwed us in Korea and Vietnam. Let the mililtary fight the war and let the politicians make laws. Keep them out of military policy making and let people who know what they are doing do their job.
I have always believed that war is the failure of politics, but once the shooting starts, then you need to overwhelm your enemy and kick his *** so you can go home.
2007-01-10 12:41:37 · answer #1 · answered by David L 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
What shortsighted people don't seem to understand is the reason many Iraqis are joing militias is because they can't find a decent paying job. Even the Iraqi government has said some able bodied men are joining militias just to put food on the table. That can't be fought militarily.
Another problem is the Iraqi government is in cahoots with a militia themselves. That is also another problem that can't be solved militarily.
In case you've missed the last half dozen Senate Intelligence and Senate Armed Services Committee meetings, the majority of the violence is sectarian. We cannot force Sunnis and Shiites to play nice. That has to be worked on within their own country. America cannot take a side in the violence, we can only police the neighborhoods.
This whole sectarian conflict (The Iraq War is over and we won) has to be dealt with between Iraqis and through their government and political institutions.
2007-01-10 12:44:34 · answer #2 · answered by Mrs. Bass 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sen. Kennedy is not so far off! Every situation like what we find in Iraq today has a reason! Such reasons cannot always be changed by plain force!
The real problem there is that Iraq does not have one people but three, who hate each other's guts, that is the Shiites, the Sunnits and the Kurds! They were held together only with brutal force by Saddam Hussein. Now that Saddam is gone, the country is falling apart and
not the entire Armed Forces of the US can stop that!
2007-01-10 13:12:23 · answer #3 · answered by defender 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
With all do respect, is this the same Sen. Kennedy that used a political solution to beat a manslaughter rap?
2007-01-10 12:41:41 · answer #4 · answered by Stuka 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i'm undecided in case you will call this an answer!?! yet I had style of a watered down faith!?! in case you want to call it that !?! Of the BORDER~administration/protection of this the united statesA. !?!as constantly I wo'nt have room for my finished remark!?! or assertion;-[ now as for border administration I say I quite have greater faith interior the army&AIR~stress !! yet I quite have a feeling some faults or below %ninety% of those superb danger is in jeopardy!?! i'm going to reveal screen the channel that has courses that's per protection stress forces/ courses on it in hopes i'm getting an thought that we are doing greater beneficial than what close by information courses are allowed to assert!?![btw]attributable to all you which of them are portion of the united statesa.s armed >forces<~ !!!<5/17/07>"R"r`r,r.r`r,r'r.'-->
2016-12-12 08:44:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wars are all solved by political solutions. Read history.
2007-01-10 12:53:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
kennedy said that because iraq needs people working together for the betterment of iraq , instead of the us military
2007-01-10 12:40:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Why he continues to get elected is beyond me. Maybe the other senators had to let him speak because he was swaying too much.
2007-01-10 12:41:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
talk to the hand
2007-01-10 13:19:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What he is trying to say is let the Iraqi's decide for themselves how to run their country
2007-01-10 12:41:04 · answer #10 · answered by bisquedog 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋