What should the United States do in Iraq?

Question

What are the best options, in the current state we find ourselves? It is easy to to say screw Bush, but I want to hear some legitimate ideas.

Answer 1

The nature of your question demands that we all be armchair Generals...I certainly have no belief that any of my ideas are actually legitimate.


1. After years and billions of dollars spent training the Iraqi Army and Police forces, we need to demand accountability for their performance.

2. We need to examine the idea of a phased withdrawl into Kuwait of at least a Brigade or 5...the ones that are in the so-called 'peaceful' regions of Iraq. If those areas stay peaceful and John McCain and Lindsey Graham can continue to shop for rugs at bargain-basement prices without getting blown to bits, we need to look at re-deploying those Brigades either back to the States, or to Bagdhad to assist in the efforts there.

3. We need to accept the fac that Shia and Sunni and Kurd are not going to join hands and sing "Kum Bah Ya" together and figure out a way to allow them to peacefully co-exist. Easier said than done, yes...

4. We need to adopt recommendations of the Iraq Study Group that say that actually communicating with key entities in the region might actually produce results. Our isolationist approach is getting us nowhere fast.

5. We need to accept the fact that we're never going to turn Iraq into what we picture as an ideal situation. The brightest minds in the business need to get together, figure out what we CAN do, we need to do that, and then we need to get the hell out. We broke it...we can probably glue it back together, but it will never be perfect, and waiting for that day to come is futile.


So says me! Thanks for asking. :)

Answer 2

I mentioned the "pop-a-mole effect" last year. The U.S. military is finding out the hard way about the "pop-a-mole effect."

There are 18 Providences in Iraq. Right now the U.S. can divert the Iraqi soldiers to guard the 13 providences that show little or no violence. Turn these providences over to the Iraqi government. This focuses the insurgence into sticking with 5 violent providences where the U.S. should concentrate its efforts. It will also show progress that things are working out.

Out of the five violent providences, probably two or three can be won over by diplomacy.

The remaining providences should be the focus of the U.S. military and new Iraqi troops should be trained to focus on these providences.

Answer 3

There are no easy answers to the Iraq situation. One thing is certain, if we vacate without suppressing the insurgents we will continue the fight on American soil.
These terrorists have determined they are going to engage America in a war of attrition. If they can kill enough of us to make the general public squeamish about the war and start demanding we bring our troops home, they will follow our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan back to America because they feel they have a point to make. We must win! That means we need to change policy on how we fight the war.
We need to get all the "Smart Weapons" and modern weapons like the ones being shown on "Future Weapons" in the hands of our troops in Iraq and let the steel rain. If we have artillery like the "Excalibur" we need to get in into use so we don't take another single friendly fire loss but put the fear of God in the hearts of our enemy so they will cower down and slither away like the snakes they are.
I want this war to be over as bad as anyone else in this country. The big difference in my mind though is that we must be the victors when the war is declared over. We absolutely must have kicked *** and taken names so the war is over, not only in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the war will be over all over the world as far as terrorism is concerned.

Answer 4

The United States is at war in Iraq, however the people of Iraq are currently in a state of civil war.

As you may remember, civil wars occurred in France, England, the USA and many other western democracies around about the time when independence and/or some form of democracy or overthrowing of totalitarian rule occurred during the respective histories of those countries.

The United States has proven itself totally incompetent by virtue of the fact that it tried to wage war in Iraq in the first place and the only feasible solution I can think of would be to pull out and leave it to the United Nations to try to resolve the situation by getting people in Iraq, insurgents, what you refer to as "islamo-fascists", clerics, representatives of every ethnic and religious group - to sit down and discuss the future of the country.

George Bush doesn't talk to people who clearly don't like him so rather than causing more unnecessary deaths he should pull out of Iraq and apologise profusely for the hundreds of thousands of dead people who lie in his wake before stepping down as president and accepting an indictment along with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes and crass abuse of power.

Answer 5

Give the Bush administration or(Bush regime) a few M-16's and have the trade places with the troops that are in Iraq now....or better yet send there children because they dont have a single child in iraq fighting a bs war

Answer 6

why does USA invade anywhere they set a toe? I dont understand why USA has defined itself as the "Police'of the world and has to take it upon themselves to punish any soveign nation that they just dont like.. What if the tables were turned. there are plenty of nations that dont like USA.. so what if they just decide to police USA and invade USA and then carpet bomb (your words) |USA cause they dont like the policies of American government.. A nation cannot just go about the world invading and bombing countries willy nilly cause they feel like it.. You reap what you sew and someday all this will come back on USA.. The world is slowly getting tired of this "im the police of the world" ideal..

Answer 7

Open the entire Country as a Free Fire Zone, so the Troops can act accordingly
Free Fire Zones help to win wars

Answer 8

Say sorry to the families of the poor civilians they killed. Then go home would be a good idea.

Answer 9

Stay and lift all rules of engagement.

Answer 10

finish the mission and leave