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Here's your scenario.We elect a President who has promised to get us out of Iraq fast (doesn't matter which one). American troops start leaving in a real hurry. Maybe they make it out before we wind up in a mess like we did in Saigon in the 70s but maybe not; in any case, before too long American combat troops are no longer in Iraq. Iraq falls into chaos and civil war; even more people die; and everything our soldiers have fought and died for goes circling the drain. Plus, we got the Iraqis into this situation (while we did do them a favor by removing Saddam we also took the fairly stable Baathist state and turned it into a sectarian killing ground) and I kind of feel like its our responsibility to at least help get them out of it again.So what happens when the Iraq our troops have been dying to hold together for the last four years crumbles to bits because we left as fast as possible? Division of America, thats what. Remember, at the onset there were a whole lot of states that supported this war and a (slim) majority of the people were behind it. You'd have the people defending our complete and hurried withdrawal and you'd have people pointing at the result overseas and telling them they'd made the whole thing a giant mockery of life. Sounds pleasant, no?And as for what we're fighting for...maybe President Bush and the cabinet had their own reasons for getting us into Iraq. Whatever. Our troops aren't there for oil. They didn't sign up for oil. They signed up to be members of the United States Armed Forces, to defend democracy. In Iraq they're fighting to establish a free, equal government of the people, by the people. That is why they choose to fight everyday. If they didn't believe in that cause than you'd be seeing a whole hell of a lot more desertion than we've seen so far.
Here's your scenario.
We elect a President who has promised to get us out of Iraq fast (doesn't matter which one). American troops start leaving in a real hurry. Maybe they make it out before we wind up in a mess like we did in Saigon in the 70s but maybe not; in any case, before too long American combat troops are no longer in Iraq. Iraq falls into chaos and civil war; even more people die; and everything our soldiers have fought and died for goes circling the drain. Plus, we got the Iraqis into this situation (while we did do them a favor by removing Saddam we also took the fairly stable Baathist state and turned it into a sectarian killing ground) and I kind of feel like its our responsibility to at least help get them out of it again.
So what happens when the Iraq our troops have been dying to hold together for the last four years crumbles to bits because we left as fast as possible? Division of America, thats what. Remember, at the onset there were a whole lot of states that supported this war and a (slim) majority of the people were behind it. You'd have the people defending our complete and hurried withdrawal and you'd have people pointing at the result overseas and telling them they'd made the whole thing a giant mockery of life. Sounds pleasant, no?
And as for what we're fighting for...maybe President Bush and the cabinet had their own reasons for getting us into Iraq. Whatever. Our troops aren't there for oil. They didn't sign up for oil. They signed up to be members of the United States Armed Forces, to defend democracy. In Iraq they're fighting to establish a free, equal government of the people, by the people. That is why they choose to fight everyday. If they didn't believe in that cause than you'd be seeing a whole hell of a lot more desertion than we've seen so far.
