2007-03-24 18:19:01 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The war has been one, all of our major objectives have been reached, we are occupyers now and that is where we are wrong. The insurgency will never be won with a gun. We must get all party's to set down and talk. The only solution to all of the killing that is going on in Iraq is a diplomatic one. We are only getting more of our people killed by being in the middle of their civil war.
2007-03-24 18:27:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Victory in Iraq" is no longer quantifiable by any sort of metric the average American can understand. The two stated aims - fighting terrorism, and rebuildiing Iraq - are mutually exclusive. Fighting terrorists means Iraq continues to be a proxy battlefield where we fight various terror groups and paramilitaries, while they hammer each other for supremacy. Iraq suffers. The people suffer immeasurably. Those of you who haven't met Kaldani and Ashuri Christians, secular Kurds and Arabs, and otherwise good people in Iraq (note: Iraq has a great number of literati and intellectuals educated abroad; before Gulf War One, Iraq was renowned for literacy and art) would think more than twice about abandoning these people if you were closer to them than CNN.
If there is any chance of victory, it will likely be decided in the next 18 months. The current military leadership (GEN Petraeus, COL McMasters) knows what it is doing. If they were in charge of the CPA from the outset instead of incompetent political appointees such as Bremer and Garner, the outcome of the last four years would have been completely different.
As it stands, we're paying the price now for decisions made from a great distance with minimal foresight. The American military is very responsive to change, and able to overcome all significant opposition on the battlefield. It is also hideously expensive to maintain and entirely undermanned for the missions it is called on to perform. Asking for every single stated aim - peace, reconstruction, an accord between every ethnic and religious group, regional stability - to be achieved in Iraq withiin this generation is pushing it. The only question left is what can be salvaged, and how. Miracles only go so far.
2007-03-25 03:48:09 · answer #2 · answered by Nat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a nurse at the tampa Veterans hospital i care for Iraq wounded soldiers I dont know if were the best but I know from talking to my patients we need to be there they see how things realy are not what we watch on TV and its gonna be a long time before it gets better over there leavin Iraq In the opion of some of the paralyzed vets would be a mistake most say they would go back again even knowing theyd become paralzed we fight for our country but die for our friends
2007-03-25 00:03:56 · answer #3 · answered by Medium Sexy Jay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The next important time is June 2007, which is the time the Iraqi president said the Iraqi forces would be able to protect all of Iraq. This is what the U.S. has been waiting for and is the last goal set by the U.S. besides turning over providences back to Iraq.
2007-03-24 20:31:03 · answer #4 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. military is the best in the world for training and equipment right now... as the Red Coats were to England a little over 200 years ago. We refused to stand in rows to fight a conventional European war. We hid behind rocks and trees and stuff. We were under gunned and under trained... cutting them to pieces. American colonialists were to the British what the "Terrorists" are now to America.
Can we win this war? We can out educate and out propaganda them... that might work. We can forsake our "Might for right" John Wayne stance, carpet bomb them with nukes, and turn their entire country into a glass parking lot... that'd probably do it. Can we "Stay the course" and win this using our current methods...
Probably not in God's lifetime.
2007-03-24 18:33:24 · answer #5 · answered by Olde Spy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our military is the best in the world. What is needed though is for the politicians to support them instead of being sneaky cowards and trying to undermine what they are doing. The Allied forces can defiantly win if they are allowed to do what they were made to do.
2007-03-24 18:24:14 · answer #6 · answered by ralahinn1 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The U.S. militar is the most profficient military out there. We can win a war, but on Capitol hill, the politicians want to do battle with one hand tied around their nut sack.
2007-03-24 18:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by ansem7 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes we haven't ever lost a war.
2007-03-24 18:29:58 · answer #8 · answered by DewBerry 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes its the best! And I hope we win
2007-03-24 18:21:23 · answer #9 · answered by persiandiva77 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Spartan Military was the best ever but we have to fight the world to prove ourselves
2007-03-24 18:23:36 · answer #10 · answered by Taquito 1 · 0⤊ 4⤋