What is the final solution to the Iraq question? More war, a nuke over Baghdad, leave?

Question

What should be done to finish the Iraq task?

US VET....from one vet to another....I agree with you. Iraq should be run by the Iraqis.

GUS...may the force be with you, because it's not at this time.

GUS...may the force be with you, because it's not at this time.

Answer 1

Give Iraq back to the Iraqis.

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Answer 2

First thing that needs to happen is for us - AMERICANS - to have an honest conversation of what is really going on and what is best for us as a nation.
The current level of dialogue is abysmal.
For a start, Iraq , while definitely in conflict, is NOT engaged in civil war.
That is simply not accurate.
There are pockets of active, violent insurgency because Syria and Iran are funding and supplying a proxy war against us.
The notion that we can just pick up and leave is beyond naive,
it is flat out foolish.
The consequences are too grave to imagine.
The way to end this war is easier than you may think.
If ALL factions would get behind this war effort, put the troops first and your irrational hatred of this president on the back burner (at least until we take care of this business), Send in MORE (YES,MORE) troops for one almighty purge of the country we would then have a relatively stable situation to hand over to the Iraqis and we could get the hell out of there.
Stop hating Bush...start loving your country!

Answer 3

First of all a "nuke" is no solution to anything.

You want the world to really double take? that will do it.

The whole situation is so messed up. America needs to get some allies in the region to step in. Saudia Arabia/Egypt come to mind.

Iraq is just not a problem that americans can fix. Especially now. Iraq is like a 2nd grade class with a subsitute teacher. Why people are fighting each other, we dont even understand.

Whatever happens, we should have been out of Iraq withing months of the mission accomplished speech.

One this is for sure, it isnt a problem our soliders can fix. The are trained to conquer, fight, take territory; not police.

Answer 4

To anyone who thinks we ought to nuke Iraq, why don't we nuke Iran while we're at it? Then we nuke all of Korea and any other communist country in the world. Then we nuke any country not under a democracy or with a Muslim majority. And then finally, we nuke every country we were formerly at war with, from Vietnam to Great Britain. Then the world would be perfect, right? Please...

We need to focus our attention on acutal threats, such as North Korea and Iran. We've done what we needed to do in Iraq, whatever that is.

Answer 5

Anthony, that's a legit question and I hope you are looking for an answer, honestly.

The final solution is to put enough soldiers on the ground, in the streets so that we can deter violence long enough to win hearts and minds in the communities. By the time we lighten up the presence and the militias/insurgents/terrorists come back to the surface, the people will no longer want them there and prefer to live in peace. That's the solution. We have only been doing that on a small scale. Now is our chance, with this surge, to make it happen all over Baghdad. It does work. I've been able to do it in my area of Baghdad with great success.

When it's all said and done, we can complete the peace enforcing part of this war and be a complete success.

Answer 6

Be careful with your words... the last time somebody was talking about final solution in politics was 1941 in Germany; the final solution of the Jew-question as it´s called in Europe... and I hope you know the result of this idea... minimum 6 million dead jews and the creation of a new crises area in middle east...

The task of a democratic Iraq isn´t fuldillable anymore... for that our military strategists were simply too stupid, or blue-eyed... Saddam was a dictator on the same level as a Hitler, so we had about 1/2 a year to win Iraqis´ hearts... but that we didn´t, because we had to protect the oil springs...

Let´s create a divided Iraq, use it as battlefield between Sunnits and Schiits and than let´s see what happens... now that it´s too late to produce something proper, why not let them kill each other and deal later with the winner instead of sending our troops into death just to seperate the religious groups, that don´t wanna live together...

there is only one god´s own country, and that´s not the Iraq... let´s deal with our own problems...

Answer 7

First...change strategy from being the peace keeper to being an aid to Iraq's own decisions. Let diplomatic solutions take over. Divide the country in to three sections. The Kurds in the north, the shii and sunni in the east and west. The US president doesn't want this, cause it might mean harder trading and more control over the oil. Plus, it might lead Iran into helping out the western portion of Iraq into becoming a part of Iran. Take up a defensive stance for our military, securing the borders, while removing troops. Let the Iraq's fight their own civil war.

Answer 8

It's a complicated solution. But, at it's core must include regional powers. They have the most vested interest in the solution. They're also the ones that are officially or tacitly supporting insurgents by allowing their borders to be porous. It needs to include military and diplomatic efforts of a true coalition, not those that we are economically blackmailing. It can't be purely military, purely diplomatic or purely economic. It has to be all of them. Lastly, it has to include specific goals and objectives - everyone has to know when their job is done. To go into a task like this without specific goals and objectives will result in an open-ended, perpetual quagmire - kind of like what we have now.

Answer 9

The solution is to Federalize the Iraqi government and let the Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis govern themselves. Use the federal government for defense, border patrol, and inter-regional disputes.

Answer 10

Leave. I'm just not convinced there was ever a reason in the first place except to help him compensate for male-member dysfunction. Doesn't he have an emotional hard on yet?