Best responsible solution to Iraq. No blame. Ideas?

Answer 1

1) Split into 3 countries, Kurd, Sunni Arab & Shia Arab.
2) Help all 3 secure their borders.
3) Keep a small force to monitor these borders. & keep out troublemakers (Iran Saudi Arabia)

The 2 Arab countries are likely to start a war with each other. The Kurds will build a peaceful stable democracy where members of various minorities such as Christians will feel comfortable.

Turkey won't like a Kurdish country on their border, but the Kurds deserve it.

Answer 2

At this point it really just needs to be what will save the most AMERICAN lives. And i think that is pulling out and coming home. Unfortunately Iraq will contiune to be a mess. Look at what happened in Vietnam...we left Siagon fell. Iraq has become Vietnam II expect this time instead of communists its terrorists. The only left to do is leave before the our country starts not supporting the government even more.

Answer 3

Getting out of Iraq sounds like the solution. We went in without a rational plan of how to keep a country intact. Mind you, a country that was not a country until after WWI, when the French and British decided to draw lines in the sand and create new countries, without regard to the makeup of the population in those places and the tensions between the different factions within the Islamic world. So typical of the colonizing powers, that thought that western civilization is the only solution to all the problems in the world. You cannot keep a disparate population together unless you are willing to use force. We are not an empire like the Romans, that kept the Pax Romana by the presence of their legions in the areas of the empire where they knew civil unrest was bound to happen. And even the Roman Empire succumbed in the end. We have to face the reality, Iraq was kept together through the brutality of Saddam's regime. Just like another made up country, Yugoslavia, whom Marshall Tito kept in line through his brutality. We unfortunately did not heed the advice of Colin Powell, that told Bush that if he broke Iraq, he will own it. Now we are at the point that Iraq is broken in tiny little pieces and no amount of diplomacy will fix it. The U.S. will have to stay in power and keep the factions in line. Given that our society is not really used to rule by force (Thank God), pulling out is the only option left. It is unfortunate, because hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have paid the ultimate price and they will continue to do so until somebody takes power an restores brutality. Not that I am in favor of brutality, but we cannot fix Iraq. Instead of keeping a country isolated, we have created a vacuum that will be filled eventually by somebody taking orders from Iran. We made a bad situation worse.

Answer 4

Eliminate Iraq all together,,,, divide it into three countries,,,, give the Kurds the north,,,, the Sunnis the east and the Shiites the west.... Make Baghdad an international city.... Station our troops in Baghdad and along the borders and tell the separate factions to get it together.... Stay peaceful and we help you..... Start some sh*t and we destroy you.... no more war by politics, let the generals do what generals do.


Radical yes, but radical is needed.

Answer 5

I think there are two viable solutions:

Pacification: use whatever force it takes to convince the Iraqi people to stop fighting. Any amount of force, any amount of collateral damage.

Partition: Give the Kurds the North, give the Shiites the south, put everyone else in the middle, let each side perform all the ethnic cleansing they want within thier borders.

Answer 6

Arm the Kurds and let them have their own state. Occupy only military installations and let the Sunnis and Shia duke it out and once the eventual victor emerges (Shia), begin the process of renormalization of relations.

Answer 7

shift US troops out of the central combat theater...will increase US diplomatic and military leverage on almost all fronts....there won't be an end to civil war but it allows us to play a balancing role between different factions

Answer 8

just leave, no one knows what will happen after. although i would suggest getting those who cooperated with us out of there. Saying that it will turn to turmoil when we leave is just another of a long list of scare tactics used by the administration. They had no previous civil war before we came and lived peacefully untill you involved yourself. It's really a matter of ethnocentrism to think that other places can't get along with out your guiding hand.

We had our revolution and someone has to win. Your involvement just makes you part of the problem.

Answer 9

Dear Willis,
It’s too late to debate.
The fight has already been joined.
PLAN A. Shut up... fire um up… And WIN.
PLAN B. Save dead bodies, if you don’t plan to win... WALK
PLAN C. There is no plan C.
Hugs,
PennyAnn

Answer 10

Continued bombing assaults with ham and pork chops to run the pork-hating Muslims out of Iraq.