Comments on: Stay the Course Or Cut and Run? http://www.cianboland.com/2006/10/11/stay-the-course-or-cut-and-run/ A Critique of My Life and Other Miscellaneous Debris Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:24:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cian http://www.cianboland.com/2006/10/11/stay-the-course-or-cut-and-run/comment-page-1/#comment-959 Cian Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:19:26 +0000 http://www.cianboland.com/2006/10/11/stay-the-course-or-cut-and-run/#comment-959 I think that America will be able to set up a stable governernmet. They've already made some big steps, such as holding free elections, overseeing the writing of the Iraqi constitution, etc... it's just a matter of better counter insurgency tactics and winning hearts and minds. Average Iraqis may not like the US much, but I bet they hate the insurgents a lot more. I think that America will be able to set up a stable governernmet. They’ve already made some big steps, such as holding free elections, overseeing the writing of the Iraqi constitution, etc… it’s just a matter of better counter insurgency tactics and winning hearts and minds. Average Iraqis may not like the US much, but I bet they hate the insurgents a lot more.

]]> By: daniel http://www.cianboland.com/2006/10/11/stay-the-course-or-cut-and-run/comment-page-1/#comment-958 daniel Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:49:50 +0000 http://www.cianboland.com/2006/10/11/stay-the-course-or-cut-and-run/#comment-958 I'm really not sure that America can set up a democracy in Iraq that will ever be seen as anything other than a puppet government by most of the people there. The problem is that terrorists simply will not give up on this, they see Americans as an invading force and if they have to go on fighting forever that's fine. To be honest all they need is one instigator who'll talk some angry young guy into shooting an American. He dies, his family blames the Americans and the cycle continues. As for ‘fighting the terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them here’ I say most of the people shooting at troops wouldn't have been devoted enough (or rich enough) to head to America to blow up schools. Now they just have to get a gun and wait for them to walk by. I’m really not sure that America can set up a democracy in Iraq that will ever be seen as anything other than a puppet government by most of the people there. The problem is that terrorists simply will not give up on this, they see Americans as an invading force and if they have to go on fighting forever that’s fine. To be honest all they need is one instigator who’ll talk some angry young guy into shooting an American. He dies, his family blames the Americans and the cycle continues.

As for ‘fighting the terrorists over there so we don’t have to fight them here’ I say most of the people shooting at troops wouldn’t have been devoted enough (or rich enough) to head to America to blow up schools. Now they just have to get a gun and wait for them to walk by.

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