Why Do You Think Iraq Violence Will Increase if USA Withdraws?

Question

It seems everyone just assumes that the violence will increase sharply if the USA leaves Iraq.
I don't see it that way.
Since both sides in the civil war, and most Iraqis, see American presence as the main catalyst of violence in their country I think a USA withdrawal will obviously decrease the violence instantly.
Why wouldn't it?

Answer 1

The violence will increase whether the US pulls out or not. Those people are in a civil war and they have been fighting for 1000s of years. The only way it will decrease is when they kill each other off and there aren't any more radicals for fighting. I am talking about children too, unfortunately, because the children are being taught to fight from the moment of birth. It is very sad. Their culture is very different from the US and there is no way in hell we can make them see "our way" of life. Sorry so pestimistic. Thank you for serving our country and protecting us! LOVE YOU! LL

Answer 2

When we took out the dictatorship, it created a power vacuum that we really didn't completely fill. When we leave, that vacuum will be wide open.

To "appreciate" the difficulties in Iraq (the entire mideast really) you need to understand that these folks have been fighting each other forever. Tribe against tribe, inside national boundaries that were established almost arbitarily and are enforced only by brute force. How many democracies exist in the mideast? Or, to put it another way, why is almost every country in the mideast governed by a King (royal family) or absolute dictatorship? Of the two that are not - peace does not have a place at the table.

Please write yourself a note and file it on your computer: "What happened when the U.S. withdrew?" I am willing to bet you'll see hundreds of thousands die - probably more. I am willing to bet Iran and Syria try to impose their wills on what is now Iraq and I am willing to bet Saudia Arabia and others will attempt to stop them. There goes hundreds of thousands more. (Please make a note)

Answer 3

I know you are joking right?
I would love to know when you had the time to speak with most Iraqis.
We didn't initiate the violence in Iraq. What we did was highlight it so the cowards running the country had to face the world for the crimes they committed. Did you see the mass graves? Do you know how those people sufferred before being slaughtered like cattle?

Since you seem to know ever so much why don't you joinup and go see for yourself.
The residents of Iraq that my husband has had contact with thank him for the job they do.

Answer 4

Media Jihad
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP150807

Answer 5

A good part of the people in Iraq want us out, while the rest want us to stay and help.

Their army needs to step it up and deal with their own problems, I think if they withdraw the military then it will go down. They are attacking where the soldiers are known to be at.
Others attack to make a statement. It's their way of handling things. Not our way even though it's cruel. We can't change another countries ways just cause we don't like the way they do things.
We cant change them, just help direct. The new goverment they are trying to form might not even stay in one piece. we are losing alot of good people because they couldn't handle their own.
Just what i think

Answer 6

properly that's an magnificent factor, and that's one that would desire to be stated each time the neoconservatives in this u . s . boast regarding the so referred to as “fulfillment” of our troop surge. To paraphrase the witty political comedian bill Maher: “of course the troop surge is working, basically like the actual undeniable fact that Daddy stops beating Mommy while the law enforcement officers are on the front porch. the genuine fulfillment, and the genuine signs and indicators of an prolonged-lasting peace can in basic terms be assessed, while the law enforcement officers/troops are no longer from now on there”. To me the above quote summarizes the fallacy in Neocon good judgment particularly properly. while everybody is below martial regulation, and the reigns of that martial regulation are tightened with a upward push in troop deployment, of course conflicts would be pacified. yet this decline in violence is basically non everlasting. For as quickly as the troops bypass away, the sectarian hatred that has fomented for years, yet replaced into saved at bay via Saddam’s brutal regime, would be reignited, and probable with greater suitable power. in basic terms a rustic as blind to lifestyle and historic previous as ours might think of that a upward push in troop presence would desire to ameliorate animosities that have existed for generations. an prolonged-lasting answer is one that addresses the ideological, financial, non secular, and ethnic discord that exists between those communities. i'm sorry persons, yet that attitude will take a sort of months. it would desire to take years. it's time to attain that an prolonged-lasting answer will require an prolonged diplomatic technique, and not in basic terms a non everlasting ratcheting up of stress and troop ranges.

Answer 7

By what the solders have told me ,yes it would revert back to the way it was before we went in.The government is too new and there are still so many enemies.The troupes cannot understand why we cannot show the positive things that has happened there. I am really getting tired of this question. The questions in here are getting as narrow minded as the Religion room.

Answer 8

check your facts again, most Iraqi's fear more violence if we pull out now.
Why is it a person plays a few rounds of chess and suddenly they can win or end a war from their livingroom?

Answer 9

Without saddam's police state or the US military presence, the fantical muslims will do all they can to crush any desire of freedom or non-muslim autonomy.

Answer 10

That norion is misleading analysis spread by conservatives and their military corporation masters to scare us into submission and buying more weaponry and placing more orders with them.

Iraq became a mess when we went in and went down hill the more we sent troops.

The fastest way to decrease violence in Iraq is if we stop our own violence