Reply #98: "those who would kill our troops and innocent civilians" [View All]

[Frederik]

Are you implying that killing occupation troops and killing innocent civilians are morally equivalent?

"Believing that the Iraqi people would be better off if we simply picked up and left our mess for them to clean up on their own?"

What on Earth makes you think that Iraqis wouldn't be able to "clean up on their own" the mess we've made for them? What good are US troops doing in Iraq? In what ways are they helpful? They are not, in any way, as far as I can tell. Their continued presence is merely delaying the inevitable, which is an Iraq completely dominated by Iran, and faced with armed resistance from anti-Iranian Sunnis which may or may not result in a civil war. The current government is already a puppet of Iran. Ibrahim al-Jaafari was groomed by the Iranian mullahs in the 80s to take over Iraq after a future Shi'ite revolution. Voilà. This is the regime that the US troops are protecting now, and their presence is the only thing which prevents overt Iranian control of Iraq. Once they leave, it will happen. It can happen this year, or ten years from now, at the cost of bankrupting the United States financially and morally.

Iraq has more PhDs per capita than the US have. They don't need Halliburton to rebuild their country (which is still a hypothetical possibility, as pretty much nothing has been rebuilt as of yet), and least of all American contractors to steal their jobs from them.

This "white man's burden" line of thinking is deeply flawed, in my opinion.