Never Ending War

To me, we really are never going to get out of Iraq. There is no way we will end up leaving Iraq without making sure there is a perfect democracy, one that mimics the one we have here. But that will never happen. Honestly, even if we try to put someone we believe can lead Iraq in the right direction, in a place as violent as Iraq, there is no way corruption and civil war will not occur. Think of Vietnam, we left Vietnam after the war thinking it will be fine, and is it? Instead we look back at Vietnam as a loss because we were not successful implementing democracy there.

This may seem very farfetched to many people, but I believe that we made the biggest mistake bywas not going into Pakistan. First off, this war began with the search of Osama Bin Ladin, which basically seems like a lost goal as of right now. Bin Ladin would have never reached Iraq without being caught. Geographically, Iraq is extremely far away from Afghanistan. Pakistan on the other hand is Afghanistan's neighbor. Not only that, Pakistan is the most densely population area of muslims. Bin Ladin would have had so many supporters that he can easily still be staying there and living his life the way he wants too. The reasoning for not going to Pakistan is that they do not have weapons of mass destruction, but that is totally a lie. Pakistan definately has WMD mainly because it is trying to rival India. Pakistan will do anything India will, and vise-versa. It is known that India has WMD, and so Pakistan will do it. As of right now, both countries are still fighting a 50 year old war about northern India called Jumma and Kashmir. They are at a military standstill, but still they try to out do the other at the border. Our biggest mistake was not going to Pakistan.

I understand there was a belief, again a belief, that there were weapon in Iraq, but this war started by wanting to capture the ones in charge of 9/11. Rather it turned into wanting to taking down Sadam and now resturcturing a country that has 3 different sects. 1 of these, the largest, is the most dangerous, and also the one that are against Americans. The lesser 2 are for American support only because they are not strong enough to take down the strongest force. We are basically in a civil war that should be fought between people in that country, and not with American soldiers and lives at risk.

I have been against this war from the beginning. I only supported the attack on Afghanistan and the Taliban, but when the attention turned away from that, I realized that this was a lost cause. Right now, the country is torn apart because we want our soldiers back, but as of right now, pulling out will later result in the blaming of our country for something we started, and something we didn't finish. It may seem like a victory, but it will be remembered as Vietnam Part II.