I won’t be long here. I just don’t understand what everyones position is. It seems like everyone says the same 2 things. “USA, Fix Iraq before you go. It’s broken” and “Get the Fuck out of Iraq USA, We don’t want you here. We can do it ourselves” Even other countries say these same things.
My question is “How the fuck are we supposed to fix anything if everyone is trying to get us out of there as fast as possible?” It’s like they want us to turn the power back on, leave, and let anarchy rule. Don’t they understand that this is not something that is going happen in a few months? Hell, didn’t we moderate a meeting between all the groups in Iraq and that still garnered protests?
What do the people who want us out of Iraq next week want? Do they really believe that if the US left tomorrow that they would be able to make it? It wouldn’t be easy, that much I can tell you.
Which Iraqis? Isn’t there several different groups that want to run the country? If we turned the power back on and left do you think that the looting would fire back up? I don’t know the answers to these questions, but I don’t think “USA get the fuck out” is the answer to all of them.
“Isn’t there several different groups that want to run the country?”
I believe that the Kiwanis, and the Lions Club have both expressed an interest. Perhaps there are other groups as well. Anything is possible now that we’ve given the Iraqi’s their freedom.
Stinkpalm, “the world” doesn’t speak with one voice. Many people think the U.S. is responsible for minimizing the damage caused by removing the Iraqi government. Other people think the U.S. should just get out of the country. Are these positions contradictory? You bet. That’s because they’re often held by different people.
Now, if you could identify a person or group who is simultaneously saying both things, then you might have something to complain about. Otherwise, accept the fact that criticism is the price of unilateral action.
As for the fact that setting up a new government is incredibly difficult and complicated, allow me to be the first to say: well, duh. That’s one reason I disagreed with the war as it was waged – there was no immediate threat from Saddam, so we should have taken the time to work out a post-war plan with the rest of the world, before we invaded. Now the clock is ticking, and we have to slap something together as quickly as possible and hope it holds together.
Gee, tough isn’t it. What’s a global superpower turned self appointed moral judical force for the world supposed to do???
How come no-one thought of these difficulties beforehand and warned us? :rolleyes: This was supposed to be easy wasn’t it?? Next, I suppose, the world will be thinking that securing the oilfields was the no.1 priority, and the US has being winging it from then on. Heaven forbid!