Will more troops fix the problem in Iraq?
The US is prevailing militarily in Iraq, but not so much in winning over the Iraqi public.
Most Iraqis see the coalition as occupiers now, as opposed to liberators.
Most experts will say that you cannot introduce democracy into Iraq through invasion and occupation.
This process is being made even more difficult with Sunnis and Shiites attacking coalition forces and civilians.
Ari raised a good point with the cartoons he posted. Both sides of this war have plenty of blood on their hands.
But I think most will agree that until the suppression of the photos was lifted, America could claim that they had the moral highground.
They've lost a big chunk of that, regardless of the percentage of military personnel took part in the abuses.
Re: Will more troops fix the problem in Iraq?
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Originally posted by kestra
Most Iraqis see the coalition as occupiers now, as opposed to liberators.
Can you link a poll or some other form of substantiated proof of how you came up with this assumption? When you say MOST, without providing some sort of statistical factoid, it makes it sound like you took the extra effort and went over to Iraq and polled the entire Iraqi citizenry and confirmed that over 50% of respondents contributed to the formulation of your assumption.
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Originally posted by kestra
Most experts will say that you cannot introduce democracy into Iraq through invasion and occupation.
Again, who are these experts and how do you come up with MOST? What is their area of expertise and how many of how many were queried? When you say MOST, the assumption is that there has been some sort of effort made toward fact-finding and that that effort resulted in this discovery that you've made.
To give my answer to the question though, I think that we could use more support from the public than what we are getting, but in the long run I think that people will eventually realize that we are making progress and that the decisions that have been made and continue to work will continue to result in good things for Iraq.
There's nothing I hate more than to listen to people berate the current Administration and completely disregard all good that's come of this occupation. The invasion was a success, Saddam is captured, and we are doing what the liberal media has always scoffed at and continue to belittle and that is "making progress".
It doesn't happen over night, and though there have been setbacks, progress continues and THAT is why you know that the decisions made are the right decisions - progress speaks for itself. Bold statements with no substantiation is inexcuseable and does nothing to help with progress.
