Why USA should cut its losses and leave Iraq

The war is over for the US

Published on October 5, 2006 By Bahu Virupaksha In Politics

Those of us who have been fgollowing the Iraq war have always known that the USA cannot win the war there. Afterall, the so called Christian, right wing ideo9logues should have known mthat the land and deserts of Irawq have been the graveyard of all empires known to the ancient world. And the USA went into9 thye war, not really with an intention of winning but of intimidating thye Arab world into accepting US hegemony, not imperialism. The real agenda was to help Israel reshape the political geogtaphy of the region so that the condiminium between Israel and the USA could stablise the region. The Lebanon Israeli war was another sordid chapter in this story and once again the war aims of the West and its surrogate
In Iraq, the USA faces a no win situation. In one week alone 20 US soldiers have been killed. The training of thye Iraqi police and military force will not help US at all because even if and when these men are deployed they will only do the bidding of their war lords. The sectarian divide in Iraq is taking such a horrendous toll that everyday nearly 100 mutilated bodies are being discovered in Bagdad alone. The US invasion is a humanitarian crisis of immense propotions.

USA cannot put any more "BOOTS" on the ground as Afghasnistan is calli9ng for attention. The WAR has becvome a part of the domestic discourse min thye USA and with thye Republicans poised to lose seats in the Congressional polls this November,it is only a mastter of time before the USA withdrawsd its forces.l It ju7st cannot sustain the level of casualities it is taking in Iraq and there is no Grand Victory to display for the toll in US lives. So the war is over. It is not a matter of if but when and Congress will have to set a firm timertasble to draw the US troops from Iraq.

What will happen in that case. The influencve of Iran will increase and Iraq will not be a haven fro al Qaeda that it has become. The best course of action for thye USA would be to withdraw its forces from Iraq and that will at one strokjme reduce thye power and influence of thye al qaeda in thge Middle East.

Comments

Island Dog

on Oct 05, 2006

Oh great....another anti-American cut and run article. You and col jihad should write a book together.

We will never lose the war unless coward liberals get elected.

Dr Guy

on Oct 05, 2006

You are wrong. The war was won. It is the peace now that will be won or lost. And in that you are wrong again. Cutting and Running is just what Al Qaeda wants for it will embolden them to new levels of terrorism. We have everything to lose by cutting and running.

Iraq may never be eden, but it can be stable.

drmiler

on Oct 05, 2006

I have written so much on this site on the disastrous and from the US point of view self defeating that I have gotten tired of the response which is invariably bellicose in tone and bereft of political or strategic analysis.

See the problem here is that I very much doubt that you have a firm grasp American politics since you do not live here and do not have to deal with it on a day to day basis. All you know is what you read from the internet and your daily newspapers. And for that matter what makes you believe that your "strategy" is any better than the US's administration?

Caracarn1

on Oct 05, 2006

You and col jihad should write a book together.

ROFL.

Alahalahalah woppa.

I wish all middle easterns were like Borat.

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