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>
> So what is your solution. I'm not trying to start an argument
> here. I just want to hear your solution and others.
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Here is the solution, step by step:
1. Stop committing the crime.
2. Actually, there is no #2; #1 pretty much covers it.
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I am not
> closed minded on this subject, but currently am of the belief that
> withdrawing will be more disastrous for the US and Iraq than
> continuing to try and create a democracy.
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OK, let's try to do this way. If the US and its coalition partners
withdraw (pick one - or several):
1. Iraq will descend into civil war.
(answer) So what? It is already pretty much in a civil war. It might
become an even more violent civil war whether the US stays or leaves.
It was also pretty much an inevitabilty that that would happen even
before 2003. BTW, there was no civil war in Iraq before the US rolled
into Baghdad and set up the CPA.
2. Iraq may split up.
(answer) So what? Iraq is an artificial entity cobbled together by an
imperial adventure following the defeat of the Ottoman empire at the
end of World War I. Why should another imperial adventure be embarked
upon (or continued upon) in order to keep together what never should
have been brought together in the first place.
3. Iraq will become a training ground for al-Queida.
(answer) Not only is Iraq now a training ground for al-Queida (as
well as other "terrorist" groups, it is also a major recruiting
slogan for those groups. And of course, Iraq was not a training
ground until after the US occupied it.
4. US soldiers will have died in vain.
(answer) You would be right in arguing this, but, hey, it happens all
the time. Whether the US stays in or leaves Iraq, US soldiers will
have died in vain. For that matter, even if the US stays
and "completes its mission" (whatever that happens to be at the
moment) US soldiers will have died in vain.
5. The US will lose stature in the world if it abandons its mission
in Iraq.
(answer) DUH!!
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I do see some signs that some
> Iraqi's are trying to establish a sound democracy in the Middle
East.
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Once again, so what? And just for stuff and grins, what "signs that
some Iraqi's are trying to establish a sound democracy in the Middle
East" do you see?
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