People say if we pull our troops out of Iraq it will be worse for the Iraqi's?

Question

Should we care more about the Iraqi's than our own troops ?

i'm Scottish but i guess the question applies to all western nations in Iraq

Answer 1

Whether or not it will be worse for the Iraquis is up to them. Should we care about them more than our own troops? Of course not.

Answer 2

That's a good question. I suppose you could put a value in terms of Iraqi suffering, on the life of one American soldier. If, say, another 5000 american soldiers would have to die over the next 5 years to secure Iraq, but leaving now, would save thier lives, but doom a million Iraqis to die in a bloody, protracted civil war, and say, 35% of the population to oppression at the hands of the Shiite majority in perpetuity thereafter, than each American Soldier's life would have to be considered more valuable than the lives of 200 Iraqis, and the oppression of a further 2000 or so, to make pulling out the correct choice.

Of course, those numbers are entirely arbitrary - just by way of an example.

Answer 3

undesirable, undesirable, undesirable. the subsequent president can't pull out the troops from Iraq. To plenty paintings has nevertheless yet to be performed. only simply by fact we've very nearly completely pushed Al Queda out of the republic, that still does not propose the the job is over. Do to this fact, Iraqi officers are soliciting for a US protection tension presence in Iraq on up into the 2020's. I additionally accept as true with Gator (dude that responded above me). He has truly summed it up.

Answer 4

Our troops should be the concern since they never were a concern and still are not a concern of this administration. He repays them with the gratitude of horrible health care when they return to war while rewarding the staff from the institutions with the largest bonuses in us history. He repays the troops with shooting down a raise for the troops over their normal 3% raise the receive...when it was only asked to be raised to 3.5% by congress. He repays them by extending the tour of duty time and sending the troops back with the shortest leave time in US history. It is time we stop letting this man kill our soldiers. The Iraqi people are the ones we are fighting, we call them insurgents...they are Iraqis. If we leave in 5 years after we say we have secure, it will only break out again in violence within a few months. We need to leave now to let it get better sooner.

Answer 5

should we not care about human life in general. if we had taken your position we would not been involved in WWII. no WWI. has everyone forgotten that no one life is more important than another. and is it not the job of the strong to protect the weak. i think being in iraq sucks. i think we have played into the hands of the murderers. but just because it is hard does not mean that it should not be done. it is the right thing. 98% of all the dead are killed by their own. should we just leave 8+ million defenseless. i think not. should we pick a soilders life over a widow and four kids lives. you make the call. i would guess most of our soilders would rather die than leave the iraqi people to fend for themselves. as hard as this war is on the people of the USA and iraq, it is the right thing to do. we left the kurds to defend themselvess and thousands died. we should not make the same mistake again. after all, we have been in north korea foe over 50 years.

Answer 6

Our troops have sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States and the interests of their country with their lives.

That is what makes them special.

As a citizen, you do not have to do that and you are never called to do this because entrance and participation in the Armed Forces is VOLUNTARY.

As compassionate and wise people, we realize that what happens to the Iraqis if we pull out too early will happen to our own citizens like you on our own home soil if our troops are not there to defeat terror and stabilize Iraq. Our troops are wise and understand this and live the oaths they took to defend the United States with their lives if need be.

Volunteer and serve. I did, and was well rewarded for it.

Answer 7

I read a quote in the paper the other day from a man who was killed in Iraq just days before the end of his tour. The quote came from a dairy he was keeping for his son, who was born while he was serving in Iraq.

It said " the reasons we came here are irrelevant now. What people think about this war and what we are fighting for are irrelevant now. What matters is if we pull out of this country today and leave things as they are right now, it would be so much worse than anything any of us could ever imagine."

I believe that we were led there under false pretensions but I do not think that we can realistically just pull out and leave. We broke it and now we have to fix it.

Answer 8

I think we should pull out now. The Iraqi's know what they're doing now, plus they never wanted our help to begin with! I say we should let them fight their own battles, I mean why waste our American troop's lives on a country that doesn't even want them there? They hate us, just like the rest of the world. So why are we there? I honestly can't say the answer to that question, I have no clue why we are there. At all.

Answer 9

Yes and no. We need to take some restraints and "political" oversight off of our troops and allow them to their jobs. We created this mess in Iraq, and now we need to clean it up. The people of Iraq didn't ask us to interfere this time, they did during the first war, however, and we failed them. We need to leave Iraq far more stable than it is now, and we need to give our troops the support and equipment they need. It is a moral dilemma, with no easy solutions or answers.

Answer 10

Its hard to have an opinion when the media screws up the facts. I don't think the common man knows what is fact or fiction when it comes to this war.

Iraq is brutal because its a brutal country and brutal things will be done if they have other military help or not

Answer 11

If the British and other allies pulled out it would be worse for the US troops; should they care about US troops ahead of their own?