Yes, your politicians and the corporations are making major cash on this. Yes, the war is for oil. (Which war hasn't been for resources or US interest?) But more deeply, we messed Iraq up, promising Iraqis liberation and a better way of life. (Again) Which of you - especially those of you who've been there - think abandoning them to civil war and ethnic violence is what right looks like? If our dead friends could speak, would they appreciate the political blather?
2007-09-13 15:01:14 · 10 answers · asked by Rubber Cranium 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Many of those I have posed this question to feel that the US should stay and fix the problem. I will remain here, in the theater, for as long as it takes then.
I feel as if we attempted to trim a tree and we hit a hornets nest in the next tree. We can either cut and run, or eliminate the nest. If the nest stays, it multiplies and more nests appear in other trees. It will be no longer safe for the children to play near the trees and nor safe for anyone to live among the trees.
If we eliminate the hornets, and destroy every nest and try to preserve the trees as best as we can, then we can live among them again.
A strange way to look at things, but it will have to do.
2007-09-13 17:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Yulik MahBaht 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm a former Airman who agrees, however, did we break it or did we fail to properly fix it yet? Seems ending oppression and replacing it with a republic isn't breaking Iraq. It's more like a doctor cutting a cancerous tumour from a body while other "doctors" (Islamrads/tribes/etc) are attaching new ones to the patient. Iraq would be much closer to recovery and possibly functional now if it weren't for the international interference (in the form of the terrorists that flooded into Iraq).
2007-09-13 16:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by Caninelegion 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i won't blame the infantrymen for "breaking" Iraq. From what I understand, you and your fellow infantrymen and Marines have been sent in there with inadequate making plans, inadequate kit, and inadequate risk-free practices. Forgive me, sir (or ma'am), yet I blame the Commander in chief and people who planned this cockamamie conflict and not the adult adult males and gals in Iraq. and that i do no longer think of asking greater infantrymen and Marines to get killed honors the lifeless. sure, some infantrymen have executed some terrible issues in this conflict, yet I blame them and the adult adult males who planned this conflict (who did each and everything to sidestep serving, i'd remind you) for putting them right into a terrible untenable place. i do no longer blame each and every soldier for the acts of a few. i'm no longer interior the militia, yet I observed this question, and that i had to absolve you of blame.
2016-11-10 09:31:44 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well as a Canadian I know our troops have always been called in for peace keeping missions but I think their efforts go unappreciated in this war.
I think this whole war was a farce and so totally unnecessary. Everything is the worse for it and innocent people's lives ruined there as well as all these young men and women who fight for what they think is a worthy cause...only to question what the he** they are doing in this war at this time...how could you not?
I understand what you must feel after witnessing all that must be happening there at this time.
It's always the innocents who pay.
War solves nothing...it never did, and it never will.
Power corrupts. That is really all there is to say.
2007-09-13 16:07:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the soultion but Iraq's problems of civil war and ethnic violence do not seem to be overcome by the US intervention to date. I wish no soldires went and no soldiers died for these seemingly insurmountable problems. You say we should "fix" Iraq - but remember the one that breaks something is not always the one who fixes it. Sometimes we have to hand it over to someone else who understands it better.
2007-09-13 15:56:01 · answer #5 · answered by Dim Witt 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel it darl. Im not a soldier now but I can say from experience that you are absolutely right. Its people like you that the pollies should listen too!!
Remember how the american public rallied against vietnam well maybe they should do the same now!!!
I'm actually australian so my opinion probably doesnt count for much in this but BRING OUR BOYS HOME!!!
2007-09-13 15:30:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one appreciates the politicians except themselves. Wouldnt it be nice if you could fix Iraq. We could stay for decades and it would not solve centuries old sectarian violence. I admire your integrity and hope you can get out of there fast.
2007-09-13 15:11:27 · answer #7 · answered by barthebear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can Iraq be "fixed" with the same tool that was used to break it?
2007-09-13 15:44:53 · answer #8 · answered by Vanilla Face 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
ask your fellow soldiers.
2007-09-14 14:55:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2007-09-13 18:51:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋