American Foreign Policy in Iraq
The American invasion into Iraq has been a very difficult topic for American's to agree upon. The right for one country to invade another based upon unsubstantiated evidence and political differences is hard for me to understand. Even though some people would say that what we did was potentially wrong, in my personnel opinion the invasion as had some positives and some negatives but could possibly have been done in a better way. America has been playing the role of "the big bully" over many countries for years. I think it is time for us to come to the realization that every country can't be ran the way we would like it to be ran. Iraq isn't just the only country that is a threat to us and most likely won't be the last. Do we expect to invade every country that challenges the way we run our country? I would surely hope not because then it would defeat the purpose of the United Nations (UN). The UN was created to keep peace between the nations. Not to have one nation invade the other. Many people have lost their lives in both nations and nothing has really been accomplished. Before
Democracy is not democracy if it is forced upon a country that neither understands its concept nor respects its foundation; it is merely hardship to the country it is trying to "free". It was okay for us to go and try to take out the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) that we thought had been there, but since we have yet to find them after the couple have times we have tried, we should leave. America didn't go into Iraq and destroy it; it was already destroying itself before we got there. The Sunni were only 33% of the Muslim population but was in the elite class and were fairly treated better than the Shia by Saddam because those were his people. We would have to cultivate the Democratic system, teach it and then implement it. S entered into Iraq there were many tribulations standing in their way, such as mass unemployment, inflation and financial debt, and mismanaged government. The American image has been highly misconstrued and by us doing things like invading countries so that they will be ran our way is only making it worse. Freedom by force is simply a contradiction and that is what I see this war as being, if we continue to remain in Iraq. By us trying to force them their only going to fight more unless we find a different approach. To top all of it off the nation was effected by the Iran-Iraq war, international oil surplus, economic sanctions, and the Persian Gulf War. In the matters of religion, there was only 4% of the population that wasn't Muslim and the 96% that are Muslim was split into two different groups, the Sunni and the Shia. We have Saddam in custody, so why are we still there? Its okay to try to help a country but you can't help a country that doesn't want to be helped. Who would they elect? With the Iraqis being so anti-American it would never work. They had been misled by Saddam Hussein and they didn't want America to come in and take over after they had been anti-American for so long.
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