I'm very apprehensive about writing this blog, so I'm just going to give my straight opinion and those who disagree, more power to you.
I strongly feel as if the public is misinformed entirely too much to develop a strong definite stance on the Iraq issue. I believe that the public does not know 100% of the facts, so it is hard for me to judge the actions of our nation's government without some doubt. We would all like to hope that our government serves our best interest, but it seems more and more that this war lacked more than just strategy.
9/11 and Iraq are definitely two different conflicts, and yet they are continuously grouped together as if one was a catalyst for the other. I feel this is wrong and a poor reason to instigate war in Iraq. However I clearly do not know enough information to even try to make a correlation between the two. Is it possible that war was necessary and 9/11 was a foreseeable act that was not deterred on purpose? I relate this strongly to WWII. Pearl Harbor was a foreseeable act, we knew they were going to attack and we waited for Japan to do so(you may disagree.) We used Japan as a reason to enter the war in aid to France and Britain, similarly to the Iraq situation. Therefore I do agree that 9/11 was wrongly used in the decision to go to Iraq, but cannot make a complete judgement of whether it was necessary to do so or not.
Do I think we should pull troops out of Iraq? No, absolutely not, at least not right now. This is a dream we all may have but I believe we need to finish what we started, regardless of the reasoning for its start. Our main goal should be to involved more countries in decisions(yeah I know this is obviously not likely,) establish a government fit to run the country without intervention and slowly remove our troops. If we pulled out now, the war will have been for nothing, no positive ending, and lives that were lost could truly be considered a waste of life.
God bless our soldiers!
2 comments:
I completely agree with your last paragraph. We'd all like our family members and freinds fighting in Iraq home safe, however it would be detrimental to pull all the troops out now. Al Qaeda would form a safe haven, and as you said, the lives lost so far would have been for what exactly? We need to finish the job.
We can't leave the Iraqis behind either. I can't seem to find it now, but I once read an article where Iraqi soldiers were pleading with U.S. allies to take them with to America if there was a withdrawal because they'd be destroyed without our support at this time.
I dig your style. The vast majority of the population (which includes me) does lack the knowledge to form a competent and comprehensive policy on Iraq, but that certainly doesn't stop them from thinking they do. However, I do feel that the population has the capacity and duty to make their preferences and expectations known to their representatives so our politicians can use their expertise and the resources available to them to produce and implement a policy that most closely aligns with what they believe to be in our nations best interest and the preferences of the layman voter.
I hole heartedly agree that we should be turning to the international community for help in Iraq. I personally believe that the UN and the League of Arab states needs to take a lead role in providing security for Iraq and facilitating the development of Iraqi infrastructure and act as a mediator (or arbitrator if necessary) to settle the political disputes that are currently hindering the Iraqi government.
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