Why can't the US military just stay in Iraq forever like Korea? There hasn't been a terror attack on the US..

Question

since Bush invaded Iraq 3 years ago so being there must be accomplishing something and if keeping a US force in Iraq indefinitely to keep the terrorist busy so they can't attack the USA then why not keep US troops in Iraq?

Like I said, there hasn't been a terror attack on the US since US troops landed in Iraq. So is the safety of the USA (your safety) worth having US troops in Iraq for decades or more?

Answer 1

why don't we send you there and see if you like it, then IF you make it back tell us the answer to your question.

Answer 2

We had military (about 30K) in South Korea since the 50's and North Korea still built a bomb.

The reason we can't keep troops in Iraq is today we have a much smaller military. We had almost four time more troops that went into Iraq the first time than we have there now. IF we had done the job right then it wouldn't have been necessary to go back in. And who knows there might not even have been a 9/11.

Answer 3

I can see Iraq being a rotation like Korea but not on the scale. We may have, indefinately hundreds of troops, here. Probably not thousands.

We really need to change the way we think and fight this war. I'm referring to the GWOT. We, as a nation and as an international community, have to realize that we are not fighting a country but an entity without borders. We MUST have the ability to react worldwide in a very short period of time. If that means that we have to stage some troops, for support, in Iraq then we should do that. We already stage troops in Kuwait and I feel pretty confident that we will stage troops in Afghanistan for the forseable future.

This war will not end, soon.

Answer 4

I listen human beings each and each of the time retaining unlawful conflict what precisely do you propose through unlawful is there a regulation someplace that announces a rustic won't be able to bypass to conflict for any reason. And who provides a flying turn about international regulation>it is america of u . s . of america, we've our personal guidelines we do not want the interior community telling us at the same time as a the position we may be able to spit. and as for bush lied, properly what did he lie about (previously you answer that what's the definition of a lie, a lie is something you recognize to be pretend once you're making the fact) at the same time as bush reported there have been WMD'S he like something else of the international to comprise both the Clinton's believed it to be real. why because we offered them to Iraq in the course of the Iraq/Iran conflict.also as I remember bush reported it will be a lengthy and sluggish procedure. as for the plundering and homicide get the evidence and also you'll be the hottest human being interior the international

Answer 5

and who do you think is going to pay for that?? US tax payers, meaning more money pumped into a war that should have already ended coming from our pockets.

if terrorsts are going to attack the US, a movement made by the US in iraq will not stop what happens on American soil. So thus, what is the point of keeping troops in iraq to prevent terrorist attacks when attacks can still occur from terrorists not in iraq and who have made it out??

Answer 6

That's what Bush wants and that's what he's doing; oil is a lot more important to him and America than the lives of the white trash, blacks and whoever else is so desperate that they join the American Military.

Ps: - Do you honestly believe all of the terrorists are in Iraq? Why would they be?

Answer 7

www.goarmy.com. Then you can replace some of the 29 US service members killed over the weekend. Of course the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 doesn't factor into your 'thinking."

Answer 8

We could ask the government if they would like to split the country in half. An say whoever wants a democracy on this side, and all who want to follow the old world religion on that side. Worth a try.

Answer 9

There are U.S. troops stationed in every country around the world. Keeping extra troops in Iraq is only increasing the animosity toward America anyway. There are terrorists all across the Middle East. We are NOT going to keep them occupied enough to stop them from planning other attacks (maybe years in advance) by continuing to stay in a country that is in the midst of it's own civil war. The declaration is one of war; the U.S. government has made that quite clear. We are not there to aid anyone, war does NOT equate with 'building up'. It is not a war on terrorism, it is a war against Muslims that Georgie developed as a "stratergy" after 9/11. It's a horrible strategy. We were never attacked or in danger of attack by Iraq - no more than any other dictatorship. Good, we helped bring Saddam to justice, but by terrorizing two nations we have not accomplished anything else for Iraq or ourselves.

The military is not only stationed in Korea. We have troops in Germany, Britain, etc. They are not, however, fighting a war against all of Islam. "Terrorism" and "Islam" are not interchangeable. Remember Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahama bombings? The Unabomber? These attacks were carried out by Americans on American soil. We are hardly watching whether or not Kim Jong Il of N. Korea has increased his stockpile of nuclear weapons. We are too busy fighting religion and calling it "patriotism". Most North Koreans are Confucianist, Buddhist, Christian or Chondogyo (a 20th century movement that emcompasses many Buddhist and Confucianist beliefs). Why would our administration want to challenge them when it is so much easier to target Muslims? I agree - there are numerous terrorists within the religion of Islam. And Christianity. All religion that tolerates blind ignorance. And, truth be known, this country entered this war for political and ideological purposes that have nothing much to do with any of us. People who agree with this war despise it when "oil" is mentioned as a reason and I don't want to upset anyone, but the truth of it is as obvious as an elephant in an antique shop. As Thomas Jefferson put it: "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect... (on Revolutionary War)- We have obtained by a peaceable appeal to justice, in four months, what we should not have obtained under seven years of war, the loss of one hundred thousand lives, an hundred millions of additional debt, many hundred millions worth of produce and property lost for want of market, or in seeking it, and that demoralization which war superinduces on the human mind...We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities."

We simply cannot police the world and not to breed hatred for us everywhere. Troops in Iraq? They were before, too. There need not be any more killed in a war that should have ended with Sadaam's capture (and I'm being generous here). There were hundreds of dictatorships Bush could have chosen to "aid". His reasoning for choosing this one were unfounded, to say the least. Of course I believe we should aid countries under fascist regimes instead of spending hundreds of billions toward "winning" some perceived battle in Iraq that has nothing to do with winning or losing- when innocent men, women (ours too) are being massacred the idea of competitiveness is rendered to nothing more than useless, intolerant, angry machismo. In our (not currently) "democratized" society it is barbaric to think that there are winners and losers here. The American government has made living here far less safe. We have a dishonest, incompetent and corrupt leader.

A war on terrorism? Fine. But it MUST be done in as timely and peaceably a manner as possible or else it can never work. Prior to Bush being in office, we hadn't been attacked by another country since World War II. These three years are no feat of our government. Terrorists plan attacks years in advance.

Answer 10

When was the last time you heard of a helicopter crashing in Korea,or a roadside bomb killing our innocent young men and women...That is the reason why we need to pull out of Iraq,they don't want us there,South Korea wants us there.

Answer 11

Because the Korean People want us there, there are only 20,000 US troops in South Korea,not 130,000, and there is no ongoing civil unrest in South Korea, for starters.