Quick comment on Iraq
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I don't have a lot of time, so this is going to be incredibly terse. I'll have to follow up later.
Should we have gone into Iraq? Probably not. We seem to be establishing a very bad track record for spreading democracy. Should we just up and bail? Definitely not, lest we repeat our last half-ass attempt at helping a country. I speak of Afghanistan in the 1980's, when we helped the resistance fighters against the Soviets. Once the Soviets were out...nothing. This made Afghanistan (or helped anyway) a perfect breeding ground for the Taliban, which we NOW have to deal with today.
If we bail on Iraq, God only knows where that will go. If anything, we need to stop being so candy-ass and put MORE people in there. Not only are we getting a reputation of making bad foreign policy, but other countries are going to see us as a country with no backbone. It'll make us a soft target, and only worsen problems in the future. For example, we will have less 'street cred' when the time comes to REALLY deal with Iran.
So, stop whining over '2 deaths in Baghdad' every other day. Yes, it's a shame that someone died. But what will it really mean in the end?
I don't have a lot of time, so this is going to be incredibly terse. I'll have to follow up later.
Should we have gone into Iraq? Probably not. We seem to be establishing a very bad track record for spreading democracy. Should we just up and bail? Definitely not, lest we repeat our last half-ass attempt at helping a country. I speak of Afghanistan in the 1980's, when we helped the resistance fighters against the Soviets. Once the Soviets were out...nothing. This made Afghanistan (or helped anyway) a perfect breeding ground for the Taliban, which we NOW have to deal with today.
If we bail on Iraq, God only knows where that will go. If anything, we need to stop being so candy-ass and put MORE people in there. Not only are we getting a reputation of making bad foreign policy, but other countries are going to see us as a country with no backbone. It'll make us a soft target, and only worsen problems in the future. For example, we will have less 'street cred' when the time comes to REALLY deal with Iran.
So, stop whining over '2 deaths in Baghdad' every other day. Yes, it's a shame that someone died. But what will it really mean in the end?
posted by xanadian at 12:06 PM
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