I've been doing a lot of thinking about Iraq lately. I've always been against being there. I thought it was a bad decision from the start. However, now I feel like we can't leave. I feel that if we do leave we will have laid the ground works of a terrible genocide. You could call it a civil war, but with such a large shia majority and having already established themselves as controlling the government, it wouldn't be hard to crush the Sunnis. Should we allow this to happen? Isn't it our responsibility to protect those people. After all, we created the circumstance that will lead to their deaths if we don't do something to stop it. As much as it pains me to say it, I think we need to stay there to protect those people.
As for Bush, Fuck Bush. He should be out of office right now. We need someone brand new. Someone who is willing to listen, someone who is willing to compromise, and someone who is willing to ask for help. I cannot imagine how someone could manage to blunder a war more extensively. Too few troops, didn't consider post Saddam violence, disbanded the Iraqi army, "mission accomplished", failure to see the need for change until it was too late, complete dismissal of a fucking BIPARTISAN Iraq study group report, just to name a few. We need a new President.
In my ideal world, which is quite a nice place. The United States would own up to its mistakes and go to the U.N. or NATO and ask for help. An international peace keeping mission could serve to both change strategies, quell some of the hatred from America, and hopefully protect Iraq's most vulnerable people. I know Bush won't do it, and I doubt any of the other major candidates will either.
Although, I am a liberal as you can probably tell, I don't support the democrats strategy of setting date certain one year from now for withdrawal. I know, I fucking know, if they do succeed in getting us to retreat they will toot their horns all the way to the election and turn a blind eye to the mass carnage and violence that will go on in Iraq in our absence. I don't think that's right. We shouldn't let it happen.
So questions still remain, and I certainly don't have the answer. To what end? Are we going to project them forever? And most importantly, are the lives of many more American troops worth protect those innocent people? That's a good questions, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
edit: added indentations to make it a little easier reading and fixed spelling errors
As for Bush, Fuck Bush. He should be out of office right now. We need someone brand new. Someone who is willing to listen, someone who is willing to compromise, and someone who is willing to ask for help. I cannot imagine how someone could manage to blunder a war more extensively. Too few troops, didn't consider post Saddam violence, disbanded the Iraqi army, "mission accomplished", failure to see the need for change until it was too late, complete dismissal of a fucking BIPARTISAN Iraq study group report, just to name a few. We need a new President.
In my ideal world, which is quite a nice place. The United States would own up to its mistakes and go to the U.N. or NATO and ask for help. An international peace keeping mission could serve to both change strategies, quell some of the hatred from America, and hopefully protect Iraq's most vulnerable people. I know Bush won't do it, and I doubt any of the other major candidates will either.
Although, I am a liberal as you can probably tell, I don't support the democrats strategy of setting date certain one year from now for withdrawal. I know, I fucking know, if they do succeed in getting us to retreat they will toot their horns all the way to the election and turn a blind eye to the mass carnage and violence that will go on in Iraq in our absence. I don't think that's right. We shouldn't let it happen.
So questions still remain, and I certainly don't have the answer. To what end? Are we going to project them forever? And most importantly, are the lives of many more American troops worth protect those innocent people? That's a good questions, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
edit: added indentations to make it a little easier reading and fixed spelling errors
Last edited by cryptofcolumbus (2007-04-29 04:32:35)