I mean that's what this is about right? Stablizing an oil rich Center over there? But ignore the whole oil money thing. If you support the war and think we can "finish" over there, then how long should we stay? Should we be there dying everyday in the middle of their civil war?
2007-08-03 09:45:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2007-08-03 09:52:09 · update #1
If we actually all came together and let the rest of the world know that we were determined to stay in it for the long haul, we would eventually succeed. But the grandstanding and bickering and back-stabbing and only playing up the failures in the national press and the impatience is only encouraging the bad guys to "stay the course" until we go home. We nearly defeated the Viet Cong, until we surprised them by suddenly pulling out of Viet Nam.
People anxious for a quick and decisive victory and then a total pullout forget that we have a large airbase in Frankfort, Germany, yet today. Those that are impatient with the Iraqis for not being able to form a peaceful, cohesive government in just four years forget that our Constitution was NOT our first effort: we struggled with making the Articles of Confederation work for 10 years before throwing the whole thing out and starting over. And we weren't even trying to kill each other at the time.
The bottom line is that we seem to have become too big and diverse a nation to think with one mind anymore, so global politics is something we'd best approach with great circumspection.
2007-08-03 09:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The situation in the middle east cannot be won or stablized militarily. The problems can only be solved politically. Even the Pentagon has said that. But since our idiot president and his evil puppetmaster are hellbent on getting the oil out of the ground for the profits of Halliburton, the military industrial corporation profiteers and the oil corporations, it will never be stablized as long as we are there.
2007-08-03 09:54:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whether we like it or not, oil is power in the middle east. Would you rather have someone like Bin-Laden or Iran's Ahmedinejad weilding that power? You can't just ignore the significance of this.
To ignore the consequences of a premature pull-out by simply saying that you "don't want any more Americans killed" is a very shallow way to look at things. More Americans will be killed all over the world if we refuse to fight terrorism and it's supporters in the middle east.
Please read this very revealing article that appeared in the New York Times a few days ago.
2007-08-03 09:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Peace, grasshopper, comes from within. If the U.S. could have any effect on the general mood of the people in the Middle East I'm thinking the enterprise would require a heck of allot less in terms of weaponry, and more outreach and humanitarian aid.
2007-08-03 10:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by socrates 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peace will come while there is not extra Greed for Oil! center eastern Oil, equals center Easten conflict! tell me, What international locations have the utmost ranked Oil Reserves interior the worldwide and have Peace or arent condsidered Evil/Terrorist by ability of yet another! Ahhh!
2016-10-01 08:27:56 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do and here is why because there is a growing movement in the Middle East that is not getting the press that people there are getting tired of the terrorism in the name of their religion.
However, running away from a problem never solves anything.
Look up Chamberlin when you get a chance to see why.
2007-08-03 09:50:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It sure seems odd that in order to bring peace to the middle east we have to bring bombs, rifles, and tanks. Could we possibly bring peace to the Middle East? Yes, anything is possible, but it sure seems like we are making war... not peace.
2007-08-03 12:45:59 · answer #7 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have an interest in this subject because my daughter is stationed in Iraq. I worry about this war because my only child is in the middle of it. I pray that there will be peace some day
2007-08-03 09:54:56 · answer #8 · answered by John 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
someone in the middle east is going to WANT to have peace before anyone in the world can 'bring' it to them.
the same thing goes with democracy and iraq - they need to want it before we can even help them get it.
2007-08-03 09:48:52 · answer #9 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we sure can!
To give peace to innocent civilians!
and to keep America safe from Terrorism.
2007-08-03 09:56:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋