If we leave all hell breaks loose and if we stay all hell breaks loose.
2007-05-07 09:12:48 · 6 answers · asked by enzyme 305 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Pretty much. We don't have the troops to really pull off a drastic change in the status quo with a quickness.
(1) The Syrians, Jordanians, and Saudis still have a border control problem as far as young Salafists coming in to fight Americans and Shia. They keep on coming. They keep on dying too, but they don't seem to mind that when unemployment amongst young males clocks better than 50% and they need an outlet for that bitterness in their repressed societies.
(2) The Turks keep on screwing with us, trying to arm their Turkmen ethnic kindred (adding another armed faction to the pile) and threatening to invade northern Iraq to fight the PKK (and massacre Kurds in the process), just like they did in 1997 with a Corps backed up by a Division's worth of armor. The Turks are the "allies" that kept all of 4th ID out of the war by denying them a northern invasion corridor, thereby preventing us from sealing Baghdad early. And you thought the French and Germans screwed us. Guess again.
(3) The Iranians keep on sneaking weapons and military advisors into Iraq, keeping the Shia death squads in the government functioning. The Iranians also like it when the Americans get blooded, because they can do it on the cheap outside of Iran, and all we do is kill Arabs in retaliation. Plus, it wears down the American public, because they see us struggling in Iraq and are then convinced we don't have a chance against Iran.
I'd say Iraq is the hard spot, more or less. The hilarious thing is that we don't have the strength on the ground to turn things around quick, but we have too much strength to dislodge or really hurt (and no one, I mean no one, can really hurt the Americans. The Badr Corps is not the NVA. The Mahdi Army is not the VC), so when we step out of Iraq, we do it on our terms.
War is hell regardless of how you look at it.
2007-05-07 14:08:41 · answer #1 · answered by Nat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That one came out in the gulf war 1991.
We give them hell
and give those people a safe way to squeal on the sons of pigs terrorists.
2007-05-07 16:33:04 · answer #2 · answered by FOA 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is part of Bush's plan "Operation Circle Jerk." It is an old strategy practiced by among others: Xerxes against the Spartans, Custer at the Little Big Horn.
2007-05-07 16:21:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
That's right. That's why most countries with any sense didn't join in the invasion
2007-05-08 01:03:33 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its working, just not as quickly as some people would like..Gotta remember we are a peole of instant gratification.
2007-05-07 16:32:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its like entropy... We're there to measure the order of chaos.
2007-05-07 16:16:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋