Why don't countries like Iraq (or Vietnam) appreciate our invasions of them?

Question

Why don't they realize we CANT just leave, or they'll follow us home.?!
Is it because they hate our freedom?

Answer 1

It is apparently beyond your mental capability to discern just how idiotic and childish this question is.

Answer 2

It's not support or lack of support for either the war or the troops, that kind of talk is political rhetoric, all Americans support our vets, at least with words. It's each individual protester's personal rejection of the horror of seeing a 19 year old quadruple amputee or a grieving group of pre school children being consoled by a young widow. Any reasonable person will instinctually feel the need to stop such tragedy. It's deeper that just moral outrage. They feel not putting our troops in harms way "is" supporting the troops. They don't understand that their is no safe place yet, and that the battlefield could very well come to them, if we don't go to the battle field. Any reasonable person wants to end something that makes them feel that way. They can't end the war or the insecurity it brings to them so they protest their own inability to effect the situation by protesting the war or those running it. Psychological pain is as real as physical. Nobody wants to see soldiers coming home in body bags. The emotions generated from such events effect protesters on a personal level and force them to do what they do even if that action seems ineffective or illogical. Their motives aren't totally because of moral outrage at a social injustice, there is a psychological and personnel reason for the behavior as well. They don't like the feelings the media images generate in them, so they try and make themselves feel better by protesting what is out of their conrol.

Answer 3

For the same reason that I don't appreciate the invasion of illegal immigrants in the USA. For the same reason that I don't think it's right for us to have to give up our guns while the gang bangers and criminals have guns and while we have crooked police officers and little recourse against them.
They don't have to follow us home. They've been here all along and Al Quaeda in the USA has had five more years to regroup and retool and find new ways around our laws. We have trojan horses all around the country. Only now they have Mexico, Cuba, Venequela, North Korea, and numerous other countries on their side as well. Our government, and our people, have been asleep at the switch. The people are just beginning to feel the pinch of economic terrorism and identity theft and other forms of terrorism. Violence is just around the corner waiting to pounce. We know it and we see it but the government is turning a blind eye. They'd rather send our border patrol to Iraq than enforce our laws here. So whose side are they on, anyway?

Answer 4

Taking sides in a civil war is a good way to get the other side to hate you. That's what happened in Vietnam. I live in a part of the country where a lot of Vietnamese refugees settled. They are grateful to be here, but were disapointed (to put it mildly) that we abandoned them at the Fall of Saigon.

Not taking sides in a civil war is a sure way to get all sides to hate you. That's what's happening in Iraq, at the moment. Though, initially, when Saddam's fascist dictatorship was toppled, there was some enthusiasm about it. That didn't last long, of course.

Answer 5

We often invade people that will follow us home. I had a similar experience hiking in the Grand Canyon when I fed a stray dog and it followed us for 12 miles down to the Indian reservation. That dog probably hated our freedom too, but like the Iraqis and Vietnamese, did not speak English, so I could not tell.

Answer 6

your question is based upon some serious misconceptions. We did not invade Vietnam, our assistance was requested by the vietnamese government to assist them in fighting Chinese backed insurgents. Iraq was invaded because Saddam failed to adhere to the armacist agreement he signed after we threw him out of kuwait (after he invaded it). There were 22 elements cited in the congressional use of force authorization, of which only the WMD's didnt pan out. The Iraqi people as a whole welcomed us as saviors when we went in. Later, leaders of differing factions who wanted control of the country began accusing us of favoring their opponents and trying ot put us in the middle of their infighting. Also because we were in their own back yard, jihaddi's and would be terrorists saw it as an opportunity to strike at america by fighting in Iraq. We are not fighting the Iraqi people. We are fighting terrirists from surrounding countries and a few small private armies (militias). Dont attribute the actions of a few groups of dirtbags to the entire iraqi population. These people want this to end as much or more than we do. After all, they are caught in the crossfire.

Answer 7

Ask France. Or the Netherlands. Or Italy. Or Belgium.

And the Iraqi people are not the ones blowing themslves up. Those are almost exclusively terrorists from other countries, mainly Iran.

Answer 8

Who says they don't appreciate us being there? Have you been there have you talked to any of them? I am just asking because when I went there most of the Iraqi's did appreciate us being there and do want us to stay. I think most of them want the foreign terrorists to leave the country not the americans.

Answer 9

The real question is, "If we are in Iraq as security guards and support, why are our soldiers training based on bombs and guns? Shouldn't they be trained in foriegn langauge and diplomicy?"

Answer 10

Actually millions of Vietnamese did appreciate our trying to prevent the North Vietnamese from taking over - that would be why so many have emmigrated here since.