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Originally Posted by Professor S
Two answer both your and Game's questions about the war: We leave when there is a strong, self-governing and self-sustaining government to fill the void. Its that simple. And Jason, your simplistic argument rfeflects more wishful thinking than reality. Most dems and republicans agree that if we left now Iraq would fall into chaos.
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Its a double edged sword though, if we stay there, there will also stay a state of chaos too. In fact, right now, with us there, there is chaos. So if we leave nothing changes except for the fact that there's no more American casualties.
If we somehow meet this unrealistic goal of the people there stopping their hate for americans and accepting a government we set in place there, Iraq is just going to turn into the new isreal and everyone is going to want to break in and kill them anyway. I think the only way the problem will reach a real resolution is if THEY resove it themselves among their own people, just like we resolved our issues ourselves after fighting off the "opressor".
And to be honest, my old opinion was like yours, that we could just make a government there and leave, But its NOT going to work. If it was going to work, and the people were going to accept it, then it'd already been done. But they will not accept Americans changing them.