Reply #24: Iraq needs to be stabilized, BUT [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

the U.S. is not the party to do it. Bush would never do this, but what we need is to invite the UN in and tell them that they can divvy up all the oil revenues for their expenses.

And Bush would no more do that than pull his hand out of the Coke machine.

Seriously, though, I am disgusted with the way we really did cut and run in Afghanistan. The money spent on Iraq could have gone a long way toward putting Afghan people back to work rebuilding their country. If instead of turning our attention to the non-existent threat from Iraq, we had spent a few billion repairing the infrastructure, building schools and hospitals, giving microcredit to small businesses, and inviting international aid organizations (especially staff members from more liberal Islamic countries like Turkey, Tunisia, and Bangladesh) to come in and administer relief efforts, that would have done a lot more to stabilize the Middle East than conquering all the countries there.