While the whole invasion of Iraq was incompetently planned and generally ill-conceived, leaving Iraq too soon would constitute a failure of our mission. Failure in Iraq could bring many consequences to us.
Here is what I prose as a way to end the Iraq war:
A real troop surge of as many as it takes. 250,000 troops if need be. Send them! They will secure the country and train an Iraqi army so fast it would make your head spin.
Make any other interested parties in this matter to make real, tanglible commitments in terms of money and troops.
Get the oil flowing out of Iraq at max capacity as soon as possible.
Anyone that it shown to be helping our enemies in Iraq should have be dealt with by means of force right away to show them that we mean business.
A troop sure of 20-25 thousand will not help much. We all know this. Therefore I think we should make a massive committment now, and the result would likely be victory in a short period of time. Then we can leave.
2007-05-12 16:22:22 · 15 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
First off, I want to seriously congratulate you for offering an alternative policy - as you know, criticism and finger pointing never solved anything.
Your plan sounds like a good one as far as letting the enemy know that we are indeed in this thing for victory - after all, if we are going to fight a war, let's fight a war and stop politicizing and being so damned concerned about being PC.
The main concerns I see are the numbers you present - our all volunteer military is stretched to the limit. I suspect that the only way we could boost the troop levels to an overwhelming force in Iraq (say about 4 or 500,000) would be to engage in a crash program of enlistment and training not seen since Viet Nam or WWII. And with the present anti-war climate in this country, that's simply not going to happen.
One can only hope that we have not seriously underestimated the radical Islamic threat. If we have and we accept a policy of defeat, the consequences will be disastrous.
Victory will come only if we can rally around a common policy - one which will unite this country and reflect the same resolve we had immediately following the events of 9/11.
Just the talk alone presently coming out of the congress is certainly giving our enemies confidence that their ultimate victory is inevitable if they can just hold out long enough and continue to slaughter innocent civilians to feed the anti-war zealots more reason to piss and moan.
2007-05-12 17:11:44 · answer #1 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hmm thats a tricky one... one million. im with the guy above me, get the iraqi military up and dealing. the only difficulty is that the iraqi military and police play the two facets of the fence, the 2d we flow away hell will wreck lose... corrupt bastards. 2. placed a end to all of this politically splendid ROE "rules of engagement" crap. If a automobile is following convoys amassing intel, shoot em. Iraqi military purely happens to be close to via while a IED in order that happens to be interior the splendid place on the splendid time? Shoot them! 3. I truthfully dont think of there is one, the only lifelike concept i can arise with that has a brilliant gamble in hell of working is. stay there for yet another 15-2 many years untill those sons and daughters that adore us and prefer us exchange into adult adult males and ladies able to rendering a civilized society.
2016-12-11 07:56:22 · answer #2 · answered by jaffe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've a better idea.
Put another strongman in power. As Tito kept Yugoslavia together and Saddam did (previously) with Iraq.
2007-05-12 17:02:45 · answer #3 · answered by gortamor 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Even DnD gamers knew that more troops would have been needed from the get go.
Yay Rummy for f'n everything up.
Now it's a disaster.
Yeah, a quarter mil might do it, and I think Americans would go for that, IF there were that many available. There aren't. We would need the draft. So that plan is not workable.
2007-05-12 16:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by powhound 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
2 things that are wrong with your plan:
1. Our army is stretched way, way too thin as it is. There is no 250,000 troops that could possibly be sent.
2. It is immoral to get that much oil flowing out of Iraq, even though it has been a Bush Administration operation from the start.
2007-05-12 16:28:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 7⤋
With convictions like this you should be fighting in Iraq, instead of asking questions here.
2007-05-12 16:38:01 · answer #6 · answered by vox_of_reason2 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
An excellent answer.I could not agree more.But i do not think anyone else would agree with us.Great Question.
2007-05-12 16:50:39 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
well... maybe...
the major problem with what you say is...
EVERYONE it seems help out "our enemies" in the area... as insurgents come from almost every group to one degree or another...
so how do you deal with a country where everyone is your "enemy" to one degree or another?
2007-05-12 16:46:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where are you going to get the troops?
2007-05-12 16:30:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
miles of coloured glass
2007-05-12 17:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋