So what if the US left Iraq and the Iraqis killed each other? Isn't that their lookout?

Question

The argument that somehow the US is forever responsible for Iraq doesn't compute. Being in the middle east at all doesn't compute. We don't need the oil....certainly not at the price we're paying in lives and borrowed billions. The argument that Iraq will become a center for 'terrorists' doesn't comput either...terrorism cuts both ways...certainly we could convince any country that supports or allows this kind of behavior to pay a major price...and if we can't after spending billions of borrowed bucks someone should bring brought up on charges. I hear the same old bleats about this supposed 'left' that 'supports' the Islamofascists....or the non-existant 'liberals' or some such BS. Attacking the strawman isn't much of a reason to occupy Iraq..we need to get out of there and actually deal with the problems of energy and terrorism.

Answer 1

You're welcome to your opinion, however informed or not it may be. However, I'd warn you that what we're concerned with is NOT the open outbreak of an internal Iraqi civil war. If they just wanted to kill themselves & screw up their country, I think we'd be willing to get out of the way & let them do it. We'd want it to be over fast & make sure the victor isn't openly hostile to our intersts, but otherwise it'd be an internal matter. Again though, that's not what would happen & not what we're worried about.

What would happen, and what we're there standding between now, is a massive regional civil war between sunni & shite for control/dominance of the greater mid-east, and involving at very least yria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, plus probably Turkey & Kuwait & maybe a few others. It wouldn't matter at that point who won, because they'd be an emerging superpower, hostile to the US, selling their oil to China or Europe (meaning Russian oil would go to China), which would in turn bankrupt the US economy in half-a-minute while vastly increasing China's ability to threaten our interests in the Pacific as well as in the world economy.

You can't just blame Bush cause you don't like him, and you can't just run away because you don't like the costs. We have to be there & we can't just walk away. If we do, the very best possible outcomes are far worse than the very worst that can happen to us for staying.

It's just not simple, I'm sorry, war never is. If we should have gone or not, that's a question for history, but again I think it has a whole hell of a lot less to do with Saddam & WMD than LONG-term stability in teh mid-east that favors the US economy so you can have a job. You're welcome to your opinion though - if you don't mind I'll be busy trying to make sure you keep rights like that.

Answer 2

I feel Muslims desire almost always the equal matters we desire. A satisfactory peaceable situation to are living, a household, a riskless situation to train their religion, and all that well stuff. Another desire we proportion is oil. With Saddam in vigour, nobody had the hazard to move after that oil out of worry of what could occur to them in the event that they attempted. Now that we have now are available and annihilated Saddam and his oppressive regime, all of the oil and the income it generates is up for grabs, or no less than they feel it's. The Shia feel if they are able to purpose adequate chaos and kill adequate American troops, that ultimately they are going to holiday our will and we will go away. Unfortunately, they are mistaken. Even if we do come to a decision to "pull out" we will nonetheless have a big u.s. presence in Iraq and the area to protect that worthwhile oil. We began a struggle in Iraq for the equal motive the shia and Sunni's began a civil struggle in Iraq. Oil. So while you get right down to the center of matters, Muslims are approximately as peaceable as Christians.

Answer 3

We can't leave now because we got rid of Saddam and made a mess there. If we leave now and let them fight each other, we'd be rediculed by the rest of the world for generations. Beside, the huge amount of business opportunities created by this invasion have yet been depleted. We'll leave until we are sure a pro-U.S. Iraqi government is in firm control. Not now...

Answer 4

Saddam Hussein interrupted the civil war in Iraq. When we got rid of him, the war started up again. So now WE have to be Saddam Hussein and we're acting like it.

it's a mess and a horrible mistake. Bush should be impeached for this blunder.

Answer 5

The Sunies and the Shities will have a civil war when we leave.There's no question about that. We are just prolonging the issue by staying there.

Answer 6

You got a software problem pal. You don't compute.