Why can't the world's most powerful military unable to control Iraq?

Question

The United States military as the world's most powerful military, failed to maintain order in Iraq. How did that happen?

Are we seeing that the US forces is getting beaten by some grubby little "terrorists"?

Now US politicians are telling Nouri Al Mailiki to step down and call for a new leader. ROFLMAO.

Are American politicians stupid?

Yeah I know, no US military personnel would speak out against the war in Iraq. A soldier would do anything to get a promotion, even to risk his/her life.

Frag, exactly what kind of beliefs?

Stupid_Person, Iraq's population in almost 27 million.

From what I see, I don't tink that the recent troop surge is working.

glorym, lol...

That would be "American dictatorship". Now that's something new.

How is that different from Saddam? Guess America never went into Iraq to "liberate" the Iraqis.

SMBR, I agree with you about soldiers. But how can you think that the US can actually control and determine the Iraqi civil war?

The Bush administration has displayed terrible leadership. He is not talking to anybody, nor is he listening. This is a classic example of poor leadership.

Iraq had been under tremendous stress over the decade. The First Gulf War destroyed its infrastructure, along with those crippling sanctions and then another invasion.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. I think its best if the US just leaves the Iraqis alone. If the Iraqis want to kill each other for a while, then let them do so.

Vietnam became a peaceful country after the US withdrew. No wait, they didn't "withdraw", they were kicked out.

Its best to leave the matters to the Iraqis themselves.

No military on earth can go about marshalling the streets regardless of how much firepower they have. There is no public support.

25 years of Saddam's rule: 220,000 deaths.

Four years of US led coalation rule: 650,000 Iraqi deaths and counting.
Plus 3,500 deaths of US military personnel.

No further comment on the current US administration.

conranger, LOL

I agree...

Answer 1

HAVE YOU EVER TRIED TO FIGHT WITH YOUR HANDS
TIED BEHIND YOUR BACK?

HAD EVERYTHING YOU'VE TRIED HELD UP TO PUBLIC
VIEW AND POLLING TO SEE IF ITS PC TO DO.

ALL THESE POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC POLLS ARE CAUSING MORE DEATHS THAN ANY THING,OFFICERS IN THE FIELD SHOULD BE TRUSTED TO DO THEIR JOBS OR REPLACED IF THEY DON T.LETS TAKE THE GLOVES OFF,THEIR NOT FIGHTING BY THE RULES OF
ANY STANDARDS.I DON T WANT TO SEE ANOTHER
FLAG DRAPED COFFIN,LET OUR SOILDERS DO THEIR JOB AND GET OFF THIER BACKS.

Answer 2

First, you obviously dont know anything about American Soldiers. We are not motivated to do what we do for promotion, or money, or anything else. We are serving the nation we love. Yes, the money can be good sometimes. And we have learned to trust the system to promote us when we do well.

Now, to the problem in 'controling' Iraq.... Our Soldiers are not police nor are we happy with fighting an enemy that hides behind innocent civilians. That gives an advantage to the ruthless murderers who dont care how many extra people get in the way or die as they fight for power.

And those 'grubby little terrorists' are not winning on the ground -- where they are winning is in the US press and in feeding the desire some of our own politicians for personal power. The insurgency is supported from the outside (syria and iran) and feeds on the outragous things that are said here in the USA.

The Al Quida types will fight to the end, but if the locals knew that the US was fully committed to a stable Iraqi government with fair representation of all sides then they would stop their murdering of each other in attempts to 'ethnic cleanse' their areas and alter the votes.

Answer 3

Hold the phone on that one. Going to war is one thing Police action quite another. How does 25 cops keep a stadium full of Giants fans from going crazy? Because the People WANT to be peaceful. If you look at the Big picture 90% or better of Iraqis are at peace we are fighting the less than 10% sort of like when the Mfia was running Chicago, it takes time. Give Us and the Iraqis a chance. The question you pose is about a force that wants to remain in control WE do not, we want to Allow the Iraqis self rule BIG difference!

Answer 4

Unless American kill all Iraqi. I give you an example, if someday communist China become stronger than America. They send in militiary to kill our people, hang Bush and distroy our properties. Put in some puppet to be the American leader. The reasons for the attack are they want to give us Communism and we have weapon of mass destruction. They don't care we like communism or not Do you think they can succeed. It is naive to believe strong military can control the other country, history tells us it will never succeed.

Answer 5

well first of the government is stupid. i think its pretty obvious that george bush is completely incompitent and should not be running a country. as with the matter of controling iraq it is actually a very hard task. in order to control iraq we need to eliminate all the different terrorist groups and that is hard because there is really no way to identify anyone as a terrorist since there is already so much violence and most people have weapons and carry the weapons with them. also by removing saddam hussien from power it has created a power vacuum and all the smaller terrorist groups that were unable to stand up to saddams armies are now coming forward and trying to seize power creating more violence. basically its just complete chaos

Answer 6

A strong army like the US can takeover Iraq but to convince them to obey their policies is not easy because the Iraqis have their own beliefs.

Answer 7

Former Democratic U.S. Senator Max Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran, said it best:

"One of the lessons to be learned from Vietnam is that the commitment of American military strength alone cannot solve another country's political weakness."

Answer 8

You might want to look at India and Great Britain role during the 1930s and 1940s...Gandhi probably said it best when he stated you cannot control 50 million Indians that do not want to be controlled.

Answer 9

Simply because they are NOT the worlds most powerful military!!

If the U.S. were to allow a "total war" policy in IRAQ, (i.e. take the gloves off,) then it would take control in Iraq, but the cost in civilian losses would be hugh!

Answer 10

Historically speaking, a Democracy has never successfully occupied a non-democracy.

Sadly, it's simple as that. Really, a powerful military can't help you in a situation like this.

Answer 11

We could control Iraq if we surged to about a one-to-one ratio of US soldier to Iraqi citizens. And throw in Dick Cheney's Halliburton stocks.