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Originally posted by hobbes@14 May 2004 - 21:46
Could someone please explain why the Iraqi's are resisting? We have the country and we certainly don't want to keep it. The parents of every soldier over there just want someone to hand it over too.
The ideal situation for the US is a "friendly" regime.
It would seem the goal of the "resistance" is to keep to country in turmoil, disrupt any effort to stabilize and hope the Americans will leave when the death toll gets too high for the American public to stomach.
If we leave now, Iraq will either be invaded by her neighbors, who will slaughter all, or become a lawlesss land lead by warlords, as in Afghanistan. Both Iraq and the US lose here.
It would seem to me that the common citizen of Iraq should want the country to become peaceful and with a stable government in place. Any government has got to be better than a return to the Saddam status-quo. The resistance, in the end, will serve those who which to capitalize on the situation.
These are just my thoughts.
You hit the nail directly on the head. I have said the same thing myself in other threads.