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MasterKalif -> RE: Kissinger: No victory in Iraq (11/19/2006 12:01:15 PM)
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Henry Kissinger, in my personal opinion a true conservative (one I can identify most with), is completly right....the Iraq intervention has been a disaster any one way you look at it....for American troops, for Iraqis, no gains in oil prices for the US, no real democracy in Iraq but just chaos and lawlesness....I mean if this is how the US plans on "rescuing" countries for democracy, they might as well just not bother....and to leave now would be a mistake, because the insurgent groups and religious fanatics would be in the best position to take power.....and then if that happens...Iraq will for sure become a real threat to the region with a radical almost fundamentalist regime that will certainly try to threaten the United States and its interests, much more than old crazy Saddam.
Therefore, the only solution, maybe short term (since already American policy makers want to leave), is to train a hardcore Iraqi army and commanders, instill unitary nationalism in their ranks, and have them do a coup....its the best way at least to maintain civil order (albeit, imposed), and a friendly-regime to the US, and who eventually, if its a more responsable regime, it can hand more power to civilians in the future or can be coaxed to do so. Unfortunately, in these situations one can never know for sure the outcome. Iraqis are simply not ready for democracy, and the destabilizing situation now would not allow a democracy to take hold. The roots of the Iraqi fiasco lie that in the beginning American troops were unwilling to "impose" order at all costs, which is what the people were used to.
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