Would you agree we should pull additional troops from bases around the world to add to the surge troops now in Iraq,and add more troops in Afghanistan?
2007-11-30 07:41:24 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Edit: ezf; you must have flunked reading in the government school you attended. I never mentioned anything about a draft!
Some of you got pretty close to what i'm looking for.
Some of you just want to show your ignorance.
some of you just don't have a clue.
2007-11-30 08:10:22 · update #1
Edit: Arby,your thinking on the right track! expand your thinking,and come back and add to it!
2007-11-30 08:17:12 · update #2
In some capacity I think we need to be there, it would be great if we could begin scaling down.
2007-11-30 07:48:40 · answer #1 · answered by G-gal 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I doubt I regularly trust earth desires oil yet I agree now. Our venture in Afghanistan ought to be extra for sure defined. Even on an identical time as Bush & Co. struggled in Iraq there became right into a sparkling purpose. Stabilize the country so a central authority could desire to be formed, build back destroyed and neglected infrastructure and prepare risk-free practices forces so there may be a great democratic regime in the middle East. Sectarian violence could have prolonged the campaign notwithstanding it has in many cases succeeded. Does Afghanistan have the factors or wherewithal to ever grant it is very own risk-free practices? We fairly can't discover the money for to convey the country's infrastructure as much as well-liked standards so what''s the tip game right here?
2016-10-18 10:10:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Redrum, I really don't know the "best" solution. We broke it, and we are responsible, up to a point, for fixing it. I don't know if we need more or less, but our ultimate goal must be to get OUT. The sooner we leave them to their own business, the sooner we can gain some credibility for the the claim that it wasn't all about oil or religion.
It's very frustrating for me. I want service men and women to be home and safe, but I know that a precipitous withdrawal would likely be a disaster, in the long run.
Diplomacy needs to have carrots and sticks, but I believe with all my heart that we rushed to the stick on this. It's like the old Buck Owens song: when we went in, we got a tiger by the tail, and letting go is going to be tricky.
2007-11-30 08:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by Arby 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
So where is the political solution?
Until that happens, I am not very confident about the surge.
We could keep forces in Iraq until the cows come home...but without a political solution between the Iraqis themselves...how can you claim it worked. ?
People are still dying over there.
2007-11-30 07:46:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We will have troops there for another 10 years and maybe forever... We still have troops in Japan and that war ended 60 years ago!
We need to get over the fact that our loved ones are over seas and realize that they are doing a job for this country they swore to do and 99.9% wouldn't have it any other way. It is the .01% that the media and Democrats get ahold of to sway peoples opinions.
Please look back at the voting numbers for the last presidential elections. I think 80% of the troops voted for Bush if I am not mistaken.
2007-11-30 07:49:37 · answer #5 · answered by Tommy G 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Who thinks the so called surge has worked. It's still one big mess over there along with Afghanistan.
2007-11-30 07:52:33 · answer #6 · answered by Dave M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The surge is a farce. The insurgents are just laying low until we pull out. They know we can't sustain the surge numbers they are just waiting until there isn't a U.S. force on every street corner.
2007-11-30 07:51:23 · answer #7 · answered by huckleberryjoe 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We can't win and we can't leave -- thanks GW
And don't say we can win because you can't even tell me what it would look like if we did win or come EVEN CLOSE to describing how we could get there from here.
And if we DO see a significant troop reduction in the near future it WILL be a rancid, politically calculated one. There is NOTHING this admin has not turned political
We're there for AT LEAST the next decade
2007-11-30 07:48:20 · answer #8 · answered by captain_koyk 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No! The point of the surge was to give the Iraqi politicians "breathing space" to get their s%!t together. Have they?? LMAO!
It's their country, and it's time they stepped up.
2007-11-30 07:49:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
sure, and lets draft every high school graduate and send them "over there" for at least 2 years to build character and serve their country, and help expand the empire.
2007-11-30 07:53:28 · answer #10 · answered by ez f 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋