I am a liberal and I believe the US has made a mistake, but can't make a second one. It has to fix the problem not just leave!
2007-04-21 09:21:40 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
You've just described the situation in Iraq now.
2007-04-21 09:24:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
But you're making the same assumption a lot of people make. You're assuming WE can fix the poblem.
The problems now stem from within. Short of turning the whole country into a military police state (sort of like, well, Saddam did) these problems cannot be solved. The Kurds, Sunnis, etc. have to want to work together to stabilize the country. Until that time, their will be too much in-fighting and division for Iraq to stabilize.
The entire region has been at war pretty much for the past 1000 years. We are not going to resolve a millenium's worth of religious war in a matter of months or years without the help of all the people involved.
Any socio-political analyst for the region would have easily told you to not invade the country uni-laterally for specifically the reasons we are seeing now.
The only way this situation can possibly be resolved is by getting a multi-national force in their (predominately moderate Middle Eastern countries) to help stabilize the situation and for the US to get out. Our forces act as a lightening rod, which the leaders use to focus the public's attention.
It is arrogance and ignorance that got us into this mess and its arrogance, ignorance, and pride that assumes we can fix the problem.
~X~
2007-04-21 17:14:43 · answer #2 · answered by X 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iraq was NOT a safe haven for terrorists until Bush made it so. Afghanistan was a safe haven for terrorists under the Taliban and we toasted their misogynist behinds. Bush just didn't know when to quit, and he still doesn't. How much more horror and daily carnage has to happen until we conclude it couldn't be much worse if we just pulled out and let the Iraqis clean up this mess. If the daily suicide bombings would stop, what do you see happening? The Shiites doing some ethnic cleansing on the Sunnis? If that happens, the U.S. can step in again. Iran, Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Palestine and Israel, can keep a checks and balances thing going. We're not viewed as liberators over there. Nobody wants us there except George Bush, Haliburton, and the U.S. miltary industrial complex.
2007-04-21 16:31:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They don't want us there, so why should our young men and women stay? The place is going to get worse and worse because generations of Iraqi children will come to hate the troops more and more. If we stay then the next generation of Iraqis will hate us more than the generation that is there now.
I still have no idea why Iraq was invaded and not Saudi Arabia which was home to the 9/11 nutcases.
2007-04-21 16:30:47 · answer #4 · answered by Obtuse Triangle Fan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We have laid the footing for a civil war and now we are in the middle of it making things worse than need be. This is part of the reason SAD-DAN ruled the way he did. It is the only way the lid could be kept on these problems. We did away with him and now all HELL has broken lose. We need to pull out now let the tension settle then help them build their country back their way. NOT OURS.
2007-04-21 16:32:27 · answer #5 · answered by zipper 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The terrorist groups in Iraq are only there because we are there. Once US troops leave the Iraqi people will not allow them to remain as evident in the most recent US Army reports.
2007-04-21 16:31:10 · answer #6 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So how do we fix the problem? Kill everybody and then leave? That would be the only way to be sure we left no terrorists behind. I'm not seriously suggesting we do that, though.
2007-04-21 16:27:29 · answer #7 · answered by DJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, that really isn't a big deal. Because if it were, we would already have invaded Pakistan. So enough already with this stuff.
Last time, it was fight them there, so we didn't have to fight them here and now it's oh my gosh, we going to create a haven for them if we leave...guess what...all we are doing now is giving them invaluable training on how to kill us.
Let's leave so the nut jobs in Iraq can go back to their other favorite game, killing each other.
2007-04-21 16:27:11 · answer #8 · answered by KERMIT M 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Instead of pulling out, why don't we just annihilate all of the Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq? Then, only the friendly Kurds will be living there, along with the employees of Haliburton, Arco/Atlantic Richfield and Chevron...
2007-04-21 16:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by MenifeeManiac 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
stop looking at iraq as a safe haven, instead look at it as a terrorist factory, when we leave the factory shuts down, as
images of mutilated iraqi children and occupation stop being broadcasted throughout the middle east with it's numerous safe havens. Remember, even when they kill their own its our fault in their eyes
2007-04-21 16:31:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
How do you fix the problem? Iraq will never be a democracy.
Our only hope is for a strong Shia dictator.
2007-04-21 16:29:07 · answer #11 · answered by October 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋