Why can't the regional powers of the Mid East help Iraq? How about some participation on this one?

Question

Many on here and in the media have suggested we should just back out and let those in the region: Syria, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia take care of the problem in Iraq. What are your thoughts and justifications.

To see mine, visit my blog article entitled: Regional Webs of Entanglement. http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-DfkctJU7dK5B7LcNROoyVQ--;_ylt=AiNXZokI1G6zowgYXNnJS9msAOJ3?cq=1

Viking would you be surprised to know that 9.7% of the Syrian population is "Kurds, Armenians and others?"

Excellent, well thought answers so far on this.

Answer 1

Two of the powers you listed have Kurds living within their borders. Do you think they are anxious to assist the Kurds of Northern Iraq? Syria is a nation under the control of the Ba'ath party. The same party which ran Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Iranians are Persians! Do you think the member states of the Arab League are going to allow the guys in Tehran an opportunity to do a cheap, modern-day reccreation of the days of Cyrus the Great? Hell, the Iranians are already supplying some of the Salafist Jiahdists in Iraq in hopes of de-stabilizing the government in Baghdad.
The Gulf States are supporting our efforts through allowance of basing. So is the Emirate of Kuwait. Saudi Arabia, filled with mostly Wahabi sect Muslims, realize that those followers of the ideas of Ibn Abdul Wahab Najdi are philosophical "kissing cousins" of the Al Queda in Iraq terrorists. So, they won't charge through the front door as long as the back door remains vulnerable.
The Arab League is sending a delegation to Israel to get some agreement on dealing with the terrorists of Hamas. It's a baby step, but it is progress and a sign that some of the littoral nations are beginning to awaken to the threat that these Salafist Jihadists pose to their regimes.

Answer 2

Will the reason maybe is that these regional powers may not be serve the interest of the U.S. and the Iraq people. Syria and Iran have been call the "Axis of Evil." In my point of view, we should not pull out yet. Like many have said before the "job is not done." These regional powers may not also have the capability or resource to stabilize the county. If we pull out now, we will be yielding a victory to theses terrorist organization. And what about our men and women who have dead in this war? How do we justify that? I am not really for the war, but I do support our troops. What we can do is maybe bring in more NATO and troops from other nations. Or what we can do is stabilize a small part of Iraq and than stabilize it surrounding and so on...

Answer 3

Hey why don't we just wait for your Middle Eastern saviors ferry the Palestinians to Iraq and open up a humanitarian safe harbor for all the Islamic, displaced and disenfranchised souls of the globe. You can watch their cable news and see that they are just waiting in the wings of the theater of war to help the Iraqis and the Palestinians. Not!

The United States is on our own and we have our pants down. Here is something equally as exciting. Why don't we plant a flag, annex the region, ratify Iraq as our 51st State, "the State of Confusion". Look there is no clean way out of a regional civil war. The biggest problem the US has is that we don't have the stomach for 'war' that is necessary to secure a worthwhile peace. Like it or not the US swallowed a tapeworm and we are inextricably connected.

Answer 4

The Sunnis and Shiites have been hating each other for almost 1400 years. Their Prophet forgot to state his successor before he died. They've been arguing and fighting over this issue, who was the correct successor, for almost 1400 years. I think Iran is a Shiite country (maybe Sunni). Anyway, once we immediately pull out, like the bleeding heart Democrats want us to do, like we did in Viet Nam, Iran will, as they have already been doing, arm their fellow Shiites (or Sunnis) and proceed to kill all the Sunnis (or Shiites). Saudi-Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and perhaps several other Muslim countries will step in and arm their side (Shiite or Sunni) and try to stop the slaughter. It will become a huge sectarian war far out of control. Neither side will be happy until one side is all dead. The only help in the respect of Iraq the Sunnis or Shiite countries want to offer in terms of help is killing off and eliminating all who aren't the same as them...Shiite or Sunni. It really will be World War III.

Answer 5

That presumes we're willing to accept the results of countries acting without following what the US wants them to do.

The US position is that we dictate behavior, and anyone who doesn't comply is considered a threat.

Based on that mindset, the US would unlikely to let the region sort itself out.

Answer 6

As I understand it, if the US were to do that, the country of Iraq would cease to exist. All four of those countries would take Iraq apart to serve their own needs.