Would America and the world be better off today had we not invaded Iraq?

Question

I think this is a tough question to which there are no easy answers.

What's your take on it?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

I think both countries would be better off. It sickens me to think of what average Iraqi citizens have lost. And what have they gained?? Many that could afford to have left, many have lost their homes and are living in tents. They've lost their jobs, and family members. As for living here I don't feel safer, I feel our invasion has created more terrorists and terrorist sympathizers than they could have recruited any other way. To determine if the invasion was right or wrong I just ask if anyone thinks that after 9/11, would any other president invaded Iraq?? As for the people in Afganistan, we hardly ever hear about them and events in that war. I feel we've made the world a more dangerous place for all people. Even if Iraq does get there country reestablished somewhat, we will need to be there for years to come. Fighting an idealogy will not work as there will always be more to take the place of those who are killed for their cause, especially one where dying makes them martyrs. There culture is too different to expect anything else.

Answer 3

The world ?

I don't really think the invasion of iraq has had much effect in most of the world.

Not in Asia, South America, Africa.

Very little effect in europe.

The real effects are in America and the middle east.

America would probally have been better off with a different approach.

But there is no monday morning quarterbacking in the real world.

Whats really scary is, the number of people, who think there was a lie about WMD's and that the government knew there were no WMD in Iraq.

Especially since every major intelligenace agency in the world, thought iraq had wmd.

Answer 4

Definitely...

If we abide by the Laws of Physics:

"For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction",

then we know change will occur throughout the region as we alter the power structure.

Then, because of entropy, where:

"systems move from highly order states to disorder" (without the input of energy to maintain order),

it would suggest that the resulting power "vacuum" (as folks term it) will lead a change in power structure, as well as chaos..

Now, unlike some physical experiment, the Middle East is not a Closed system. In fact it is highly complex and very open, with many interactions and subcomponents, many of which are poorly understood, not recognized or even evolved yet.

What this means is, the Reaction to our Invasion will be highly unpredictable and chaotic, as the imbalance of power seeks equilibrium. We can't understand this, because power (energy inputs) that govern where we ultimately attain "equilibrium" are varied in distribution, intensity and scale and often have either or both competing as well as reinforcing effects...

Figure this one out...

Answer 5

This is an easy question, and there are easy answers. No America would not be better off and neither would the world. Iraq was a threat to the stability to the middle east as a whole. Look back to his invasion of Kuwait, gassing of the Kurds, the murder and torture of hundreds of thousands of his own people, his manipulations and bankrolling the UN, France, and Russia. The list goes on and on and on.

Answer 6

societies are ruled by politics- and politics are only guesses!So nothing is sure at such!What about you and others who must be voters-presumed in a democracy?Could you not train yourselves to say no to wars and give politics its true values? Other wise what you expect from a democracy where votes are bought and sold like transactions at stock exchanges?
How could one deal with the "serious lies of a dictator threatening his regions and others by his WMD ( himself knows the meaning and capacities)/ If Iraq has degenerated in violence blame the trouble makers and the vultures behind (as instigators in dark)/Go the Q&A way in a private and intimate journal / make it the inquisitive and critical ways and be impartial in your exercise-surely the truth will open to you.!My dear!

Answer 7

incorrect!!! If we had no longer long previous there Saddam could nonetheless be there i do no longer understand how having a dictator who constantly defied the UN by ability of no longer allowing them to in to his factories, as properly because of the fact the undeniable fact that Saddam's people gassed and killed quite a few people nonetheless alive could be solid for all and sundry. so which you're keen to be for a Dictator because of the fact the guy you probably did no longer vote for have been given rid of him? you do no longer think of we ought to continuously take care of ourselves against people who're attempting to break us considering you do no longer merely like the president. it is snarled, i think of you need to lookup the observe extremists, that any ability mandatory crap is what the terrorists are doing, which makes you no longer lots extra useful than they're. they are going to faculties now and video clips that they choose, balloting, plus quite a few Al-Quida participants have been captured or killed on an analogous time as we've been there. i don't get how people are not clever sufficient to make certain this could be an entire new enemy, in actuality they simply got here across inmates in California i think of it became. They have been commencing a fear cellular yet they have been stopped, they have been making plans an attack on usa. those people recruit those nut jobs and get them to do harm, how are not people clever sufficient to make certain that?

Answer 8

I think we needed to go into one of them. Iraq is kinda small, but not the smallest. If I was going to pick a fight with a Taliban country and didn't want to look like a bully it would of probably been the one I picked. Plus we had history with them. Its also in the middle so if we had to go anywhere else we could just say we followed them there. I think the world would be worse off right now if we would of backed down.

Answer 9

Without question Iraq was a mistake, that is why they had to lie to us to get us involved. The American people do not believe in the bush jr policies.

Answer 10

Glad you asked.

I believe if we had just done nothing, Saddam would have gotten more and more embolden. He would have continued to fund and support terrorists. They would have continued to attack New York until it was destroyed. He would have then turned his attention to California. The problem I have with that is, the liberals from both states would flee to other states and we like em just where they are. We can turn the channel or mute the set when they spew their vile trash, but being around us would be too much. So the answer to the problem was to take Saddam and the terrorists out over there instead of our liberal "friends". WOW that sure left a bad taste in my mouth to call them friends. Wait ....... ughhhrrruuggh ... sorry, I lost my breakfast.

Answer 11

Yes, we could have kept our military and intelligence (oxymoron alert) agencies focused on Afghanistan and Al Qaeda. We could have saved alot of money, and not been so far in debt to China. 3,600+ of our soldiers would still be alive today.