When the USA military departs Iraq (Pull troops out) will the violence increase again?

Question

March 1975. (USA says )"Vietnam stable....USA won". April 30th 1975....The USA loses the Vietnam war.

Answer 1

The US is the REASON for the violence in Iraq! If anything it will decrease

Answer 2

Well this is an excellent point, and it is one that should be brought up anytime the neoconservatives in this country boast about the so called “success” of our troop surge. To paraphrase the witty political comedian Bill Maher:

“Of course the troop surge is working, just like the fact that Daddy stops beating Mommy when the cops are on the front porch. The real success, and the true signs of a lasting peace can only be assessed, when the cops/troops are no longer there”.

To me the above quote summarizes the fallacy in Neocon logic quite well. When people are under martial law, and the reigns of that martial law are tightened with an increase in troop deployment, of course conflicts will be pacified. Yet this decline in violence is only temporary. For once the troops leave, the sectarian hatred that has fomented for years, but was kept at bay by Saddam’s brutal regime, will be reignited, and probably with increased vigor.

Only a nation as ignorant of culture and history as ours would think that an increase in troop presence could ameliorate animosities that have existed for generations. A lasting solution is one that addresses the ideological, economic, religious, and ethnic discord that exists between these groups. I am sorry folks, but that approach will take more than a few months. It could take years.

It is time to realize that a lasting solution will require a lengthy diplomatic process, and not merely a temporary ratcheting up of force and troop levels.

Answer 3

I hear some people say if we pull the troops out of Iraq their death and sacrifices would be for nothing. This could not be further from the truth! People who serve in the military and end up giving the ultimate price are in my mind doing the highest honor. It doesn't matter whether you agree with what they're doing or who sent them. It's their job and a lot of soldiers will tell you they don't always blindly agree with their leaders. We cannot keep our troops fighting and dying in Iraq, as well as Iraqi civilians just so it will be meaningful. It already is and we can best honor that by bringing the rest home as soon as possible. Just my opinion.

Answer 4

That depends on how and when we leave.

Will it be a rapid pull-out before the country is ready or a planned, phased draw-down over time when the Iraqi government is capable of running its own country without our help?

We've been in Korea as their partners for 50 years and we're just now handing wartime control of their own Army back to the Korean Government. These things take time and people need to stop being so myopic and start looking at our Nation's security and that of our allies over the next 100 to 150 years.

We're a young nation ourselves; we've only been a country for 231 years. That's a blink of an eye in terms of human history! We've been in Iraq for almost 5 years, which is less than the blink of an eye to history. The process of regional stabilization and the solidification of Iraq have only just begun and we're actually off to a good start when you look at the big picture. We've only lost approximately 4,000 Service Members in Iraq in 5 years! In previous wars we've lost that many on a day or so.

Iraq is no Vietnam. The Iraqi government is not fighting another sovereign nation for control of the country, it is systematically rooting-out and destroying networks of criminals who are hell-bent on keeping Iraq in anarchy and creating another failed state, such as Afghanistan, or Somalia. Criminals of all stripes flourish in anarchy and how can we, as Americans, as civilized human beings condemn innocent Iraqis to live in anarchy?

Frankly I foresee the U.S. staying in Iraq for the next 50-75 years. But as the criminals are destroyed it will slowly get better and by the time the Iraqis are ready to stand on their own and we finally withdraw, People will visit Baghdad on their vacations, European students will attend university in Iraq, and the infrastructure and education system of the country will be on par with the rest of the developed world, and not be some forsaken killing field in the middle of the desert.

Answer 5

Well I think in that case violence would be a word of little significance. its enough violence at this stage and after the american troops leave iraq, it will be kinda 'tandava', a revelry of death and destruction over there.

Answer 6

YES. Worse than ever. Innocent people will die by the Thousands.

The US BUYS ALL THE PETROL it uses in Iraq. Check it out.

Don't listen to Muslim Extremist propaganda.

Iraq is Better now than it has Ever been. Ask the people who live there... not the anti-bush idiots.

Answer 7

So stay there forever,,I don't think so.

Sadam is gone..let them take care of Iraq...THEY DO NOT WANT THE US THERE!

There is no war to win..you are mashing up the peoples country, killing them and killing off soldiers.

So what if some reporter says you lost the war..Quit now before there is even less of IRAQ..don't make this about pride .buildings are down, people are dying..leave the poor folk to rebuild in peace..YOU CAN NEVER STOP the killing but the fanatics will have less to fight about if the US soldiers leave.

Answer 8

The military of USA is the reason for violence man! They got into Iraq under the title of making peace, but they took the petrol and made war instead.

Answer 9

When the Military leave the Muslims will take control again and there will be a blood bath..

Answer 10

The violenced increased because the U.S. can't let other countries settle their own problems, the U.S. only went to the middle east to secure thei oil. Condaleeza Rice-chevron,dick cheaney-haliburton, baby bush-enron. The afghan-iraqi-and islam war was declared for U.S. interest only. this is a ACT OF MODERN DAY IMPERIALISM PEPLE WAKE UP!

siop listening to that bullcrap mainstream media feeding you lies!