if iraq wants democracy, why, after 4 years of training do they not defend their own country?

Question

get used to it people..as long as the US is there, they'll sit and watch our troops die.

then when we leave, be it next week or ten years from now, they'll sit and watch everyone get slaughtered.

our troops dying will only delay the inevitable

Answer 1

Because Iraq obviously DOESN'T want democracy!! We've allowed them to hold THREE free elections, and they don't even care!! I say we take all that oil and get out of there! Our gas prices will be below $1.70 a gallon, and the media will finally have to stop crying for so much Anti-Americanism, such as "lets negotiate with surreal killers." And "lets feed the POW's more McDonald's and Chicken N' Rice."

Answer 2

Iraq has a democracy. They voted for a Parliament just over a year ago. (How do you think they got a Prime Minister?)

What they are not yet capable of doing is defending that democracy.

And if you think that they are just sitting there and watching our troops die - then you need to take a look at the operations the Iraqi army is performing - and the number of Iraqi soldiers who are dying for the hope of a better future.

BTW - after four years, you now have sergeants capable of leading squads and officers capable of leading companies. It will take a few more years for their NCOs and officers to get experienced enough to run large units.

The Iraqis need time.

Answer 3

I think its mainly because Iraq is deeply devided by the tribes of the area, mainly sunni and shiites. The country is not united as a whole, but rather on the brink if not already engaged in a civil war. The people that we train to defend the country hold more loyalty to their own tribe rather than the leader of their country. I agree that regardless of when we leave, the Iraqi people have many years of bloodshed to come.

Answer 4

The United States needed Britain and France to build into an independent country. The united states didn't just spring into being. We had uprisings, bombings, and murders just like iraq.

Answer 5

It hasn't been four years, and the U.S. has trained over 350,000 people to be cops and soldiers. They are also training the judges and lawyers not to mention all the infrastructure people.

If you want to really watch people die, there are around 56,000 deaths from car accidents in the U.S. every year and 1 million Africans die from malaria each year.

Answer 6

We do not know what is going on in the minds of the Iraqis. Do they really want to be a democratic country or is the US just forcing them to be one? Only God knows. I can understand why the Iraqi government of today can not still be left alone after more than four years of military training and babysitting by the U.S.. If you have your older brother and sister always by your side to assist you and help you in every way, do you think you will learn how to take care of yourself as soon as you should?

Answer 7

properly, lets seem yet another, extra properly worth battling for conflict, which contain international conflict 2. might want to you're saying that the Allies were terrorists for enlisting and battling for that authentic reason. They were honestly battling for democracy. They were battling for his or her usa and the lives of innocuous human beings. they might have killed, yet they were no longer terrorists. those who placed innocuous lives in harms way for his or her own selfish beliefs are terrorists. i in my opinion do no longer accept as true with the conflict in the present day and performance little to justify on that, yet battling for democracy isn't a terrorists act, that's battling for freedom.

Answer 8

Nobody asked United states in iraq for help...they were doing fine

Answer 9

True. Unfortunately that man who decides is not realizing this simple truth and wants to throw another 22K soldiers into death traps.

Answer 10

Come on! This sniveling is getting old.