What is the best approach for the United States in Iraq?

Answer 1

kick $@ and take no names.

#$% em all & let god sort em out.

bag em and tag em.

or, ...1 nuke.

Answer 2

I agree with reports that Iraq is in a civil war. I think the military is stuck between two groups with an equal amount of hate for each other and for the military.

The best approach is to have the all middle-East countries start talking to resolve their problems. There is nothing the US can do in the region and it has nothing to gain by winning the war. The whole region is unstable and conflicts erupt from one area to the next.

Answer 3

We(the US military) will never be able to "fix" Iraq. There are too many insurgents in Iraq, and the ones that come from across the border in Syria. Our best bet is to train the Iraqi military and police, and let them take over from there. Unless we have enough troops to sweep though every square inch of Iraq to get everything, but that is impossible.

Answer 4

Pull back to the borders and keep the influx of terrorists pouring in from Iran and Syria to a minimum.

They've had 3 elections and there's some fighting between the Shiites and Sunnis, but it should settle down in time. I think we should be tolerant to the Iraqi people as well as patient. I think they're making progress even though I wish they were faster at getting their forces trained and ready to defend themselves.

Interestingly, things can work out in time if you keep at them. Look at the Bosnia war that started in 1992. Clinton said it was over in 1995, but there's been lots of violence going on for the last 10 years. Just the other day I read news of some real progress on reaching peace in that region. I don't think we're pulling out yet, but it's a good sign of progress through patience.

Answer 5

I think it's embarrassing that a country as mighty as ours is having such a difficult time with a piss-ant country like Iraq. I think we're missing the ball by not planting our flag in the middle east for the sake of being "the nice guy". Not only would this give us a strong hold strategically but hey, wouldn't it be nice if we had some of that oil? I thought the message we wanted to send was that if you mess with the United States they we'll squash you like an insignificant bug. Who would fault us for that?

Answer 6

ok i know i am going to receive tons of hate mail for this but i am going to stand for what i believe in and be honest. i hope that as adults you will accept and value my opinion as mine..... but if you dont then just know that this is how i feel and i wont change my mind.

answer.......... i think given the first information that the call to war was a good call (hindsight being 20 20 cant count since it wasnt available). from what i know now(after the fact), i probably wouldnt have supported the war, but we cant turn back time we can only go forward. now since we are in war (good call on bad info), i think it is too late to change our minds. too much has happened for us to say oops and walk away. these people REALLY REALLY HATE US NOW. just yesterday i came across someone on here that was asking how to get a visa and 3 hours later asked if wipping out all americans would be best for all of planet earth. i feel really bad that all this happened but they are not hiding the fact that they want to reetaliate in a big big way.

i am not sure about you but when very angry men show up at my door with a death wish and tell me that they want my family dead to revenge their fallen,,, i dont open the door and let them in.

to leave now and walk away is to do just that. until we can do something in iraq..like rebuild and make the streets safe, we have no business leaving.

we were wrong........ we need to see this through and help these people get their lives back together. until we can offer them hope, they will not give up their anger.

AGAIN... I AM SORRY FOR THOSE THAT WERE HURT BY OUR BAD INFORMATION AND I'D PERSONALLY MAKE IT ALL BETTER IF I COULD........unfortunately i dont have that power.

Answer 7

Get a time machine....

I'm not really qualified to answer this, but I think the first thing that should be done is a vote should be taken in Iraq. A vote that asks the citizens if they want American troops there. If the answer is a resounding "NO," then training should be given to Iraqi troops and American forces should be withdrawn in a matter of months...

If they do want us there, then necessary measures should be taken to get control and attempt to reduce violence and recruiting and training for the Iraqi troops should be diligent and efficient and they should begin slowly taking over... slowly reducing US troops over a long period of time...

Of course all of this is better in theory than practice and there are holes all over the place...

Answer 8

Don't force your policies on the West Asians. They have a different approach, study them and apply them.

You make more friends, when you trust in them to clean their own homes out without a high pressure hose aimed at them and dousing them, thinking that you are cleaning their dirt out. Your idea of dirt may not be dirt in other places.

Pork is unclean to the Jews and Muslims, but it is tasty to many others. Does that mean everyone should consume it?

Let them in the Iraqi government do the job, don't spoon feed them the American brand of government. One man's meat is another man's poison.

After all, the Americans did throw out the British brand of government in 1776. So why should the American government think that their brand is THE brand of excellence.

Answer 9

Keep handing over more responsiblity to the Iraqi National Army while slowly pulling out more US troops over the next 2 years & have all US troops out by early 2009. Iraqi National Army will take over & quickly sluaghter the minority Sunni insurgents/terrorists. War will be won, terrorist dead, Democracy saved in iraq. Simple.

Answer 10

The best approach, I have no idea. With no strong leader to control the Sheas (sp) and Sunnis(sp), Iraq is ripe for civil war. And the outside influences are not helping, but stirring the pot. In my opinion, we have to finish what we started. How we do that, I don't know.

Answer 11

If I were Bush's political advisor I would tell him the following:

1) Bush has to talk to the Iraqi people (not to the Iraqi government) directly and ask them to come forward and make demands for discussion. Talk 'to the Iragis' not 'talk about them' on the news. The Iraqi people seem to have been out of the equation completely and they don't like it as the local government doesn't seem to represent them.
2) Establish communication channels with the militias and the insurgents leaders
3) Try to agree on a cease fire to stop the violence and let the US pull out gradually
4) US and other local governments will not tolerate a fanatic religious alqeda goverment
5) Change of government may be necessary to have a balanced representation for Suni and Shiattes.
6) establish communication with Iran and Syria and agree on one strategy instead of just pressuring them and accusing them.
7) adopt the European Union economic model of expansion in Eastern Europe using Arabic contractors not US contractors to show good intentions. i'e being out there to build and help and assist. The insurgents will not attack a new hospital being build for them for example.
8) Rebuilding the mosques and the holy places and to protect them - that will make the Iraqi understand that their religous beliefs are being respected.
9) bring back the Museums articrafts that were taken by the Israilis and US back to their locations.