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| The question of the US pulling out should harken back to the question of "Should the US have been there in the first place?" What we are learning now is that the presence of US military forces being in Iraq is that they are creating more terrorists. The international consensus was that the terrorist threat came from Afghanistan. There is a multilateral presence in Afghanistan to support that. The idea of pulling out of Iraq isn't one of admitting defeat but one of admitting to making a mistake. It was a lousy strategy going there in the first place. American pride will prevent them from admitting that. If the American presence continues in Iraq, they will find themselves unnecessarily killing innocent people and caught in the middle of a civil war. If American strategists had done their homework, they should have known of the centuries old division between the Shia and Sunni people. On a more sinister note, perhaps the strategists knew of the division and this is how they capitalized on it. The US should pull out immediately and return to the UN security council and admit their mistake. They should also request that a multilateral peace keeping force move in the region with American forces wearing UN uniforms. The message sent to the Iraqi people is that the world wants to resolve the conflict. It will also take the "American Infidels" out of the equation thus removing the American people from the being the lightning rod of Islamic angst. The argument that the UN doesn't possess the ability to achieve peace in regions of conflict is a false one. Look up Cyprus, Kashmir, Palestine and the Suez Crisis. If America really wants to promote democracy, then it needs to adhere to that concept on the international stage. | Should the United States Pull out of Iraq? Pulling out...sounds like a poorly designed form of contraception. And just this bad method of not having babies, pulling out of Iraq is a lousy strategy...(I won't continue with the analogy)
Of course the US should pull out. Eventually. But the US should eventually pull out of Germany and South Korea too. When the time is right.
I don't know when that time is, except when the host nation asks us to leave and the threat is gone.
A pullout right now would be disasterous since the Iraqis do not seem able to make it on their own. I don't believe the terrorists just want the US and its allies out. It wants power. It wants to take over. It doesn't care who is there now. Do we have an obligation to this fledgling democracy? Of course. Do we have an obligation to the people of this nation? Of course. Do we want them to succeed? Absolutely. Do we want democracy to flourish here and be an example in the Middle East? Certainly. So what good will pulling out of Iraq do? Sure it will save some American lives. But at what cost to the Iraqis? Will we have to come back if we pull out? That's hard to predict, but certainly it feels that way.
In the end, pulling out, is admitting defeat. Admitting defeat emboldens our enemies. And even if it didn't, pulling out does not solve the problems in Iraq. Nor does it help the overall war on terrorism. Nor does it turn back time. |
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Should the US pull out of Iraq?
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