Why don't we just 'go for broke' in Iraq.. and win the darn thing!? Would this work?

Question

1) Send 200,000 more troops
2) spend billions of dollars
3) convince other nations to make Iraq a priority
4) punish anyone other country that tries to help our enemies in Iraq.

Do all the above, but have a fail safe plan that promises total withdrawl by 2010. So we either get the job done or get out.

Would this work?

Answer 1

It would work but it would never happen, because to re-establish order you have to conquer nations, not just defeat ground forces.

The US no longer has the political will to bring about the necessary destruction upon our enemies for this

Answer 2

We already tried to send as many as the country could afford to send. It didn't work. It didn't work because we aren't fighting another country, we are fighting several groups of people including a lot of citizens.

We have already spent $300 billion in Iraq, and it hasn't gotten us anywhere.

Other nations won't make it a priority because other nations have no reason to. Iraq couldn't hurt any of the countries with the top 50 economies or the top 50 military forces. This is why Iraq was a waste of lives and money.

How can we punish other countries when the dollar is worth less than it has been in decades (Bush's fault) and the military is its weakest in as many years (again, Bush's fault).

The question is what is a victory? Their military was defeated years ago, Saddam has been killed, what needs to happen for us to call it a win? The problem is that there is no way for us to win because it was a loss before we started.

Why set the time to 2010 instead of 2007? What can be accomplished in 3 more years? That's the problem, there is nothing we can do over there but get killed and kill more.

Answer 3

Where do you propose we get the troops. 2/3 of Americans are against Bush and his "war." A draft would incite a revolution.

Our country has already devalued its own money enough with this insane venture. The last thing we need to do is start printing up more money to make it worse.

Other nations think we are nuts (well, at least Bush) and they're correct.

Punish anyone? You mean all the Islamic fundamental governments in the mid-east? We are fighting a regional ideology, not an individual nation. Every time you kill one, two will take his place. Does history teach you nothing.

The only way to "win" is to turn the desert to glass, and then it is decades (if not centuries) before you can go in and start drilling for the oil, which is the REAL reason we are there in the first place.

Answer 4

(1) We don't have 200,000 more troops to spare
(2) We already spend billions of dollars
(3) No other nation would touch Iraq with a 10-foot pole
(4) We don't have the resources or the will to invade Iran

So no, none of those measures would work. Not with any plan for a 2010 withdrawal, or without.

Answer 5

They ended the war with the atomic bomb when Japan invaded us, so why not do the same thing now, and finish this stupid war, once and for all.It has turned into a fiasco, just like Viet Nam. I thought we learned something from that war, but I guess not. What you say makes sense, but we have already spent 500 billion and for what? The military, does not even have proper protection for the troops, nor do they have enough manpower, but we need to end this war, and end it soon, or I think it is going to get a lot worse. All I can say is that I have total respect for our troops there, and I am behind them 100 percent. I feel bad for all the young people that have to experience war, and have those memories for life.

Answer 6

What exactly are those troops going to do? Which side are we on? Are we supporting the Shiites or the Sunnis or are we just trying to keep them apart? If we are just trying to keep them apart, then we probably have to stay there forever, just like in Korea. Since we are not clear at all on what we are fighting for, or who we are fighting, it is hard to see how more troops are going to solve the political problems of Iraq.

Also, in order to send 200,000 more troops, Bush would have to re-instate the draft. Nothing would end the American commitment quicker than that and Bush knows it.

Answer 7

Gaining allies would be great. We do have some, but that shouldn't stop us. We're in Iraq, not because Hussein was involved in 9/11 directly, but because we promised the world that we'd not tolerate anyone aiding and abedding terrorist. Hussien did and so that's why we're there. We are obligated to the Iraqi ppl now to not leave them for the wolves. We did what we had to do, and now we're there to make sure they can survive on their own two feet. Allies? Yes. Troops there until stable gov't? Yes. Pullout date? DUMBASS idea telling enemies when to engage..hello!!!

Answer 8

Win What? We won the war 4 years ago when we caught Sadam. Now its time for Iraq to solve its own problems! Let them fight each over who will rule. The problem is the minority can not handle the fact that the majority won the election there. Time for the majority to stand firm and kick the butt of the minority terrorist!

Answer 9

1) More targets
2) America has the biggest debt in history already
3) Other nations are too wise
4) Other countries are not frightened of America

Answer 10

We are starting to win, my brother is over there, so I am watching all the updates. Rollo, we are fighting Islamic fundamentalists(the totally religious fanatic). When it was announced that 12 dissidents were killed by insurgents-and 6 more in town, I recieved the video through a friend. The insurgents are finding it harder and harder to attack, because all the targets they want seem to have heightened US security.