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Originally Posted by jorgelito
Will, interesting thoughts there, I like your idea of the Renaissance man. It reminds me of what Thucydides said about philospher -soldiers. Same with Plato too I think (Maybe Roachboy can verify).
Do you think the natural resources should be guarded by the Iraqis instead? The consideration is they aren't trained enough or qualified. Or maybe an international force. Presumably, the resources still need to be guarded right? I like your idea of handing over resources as a goodwill gesture and show of good faith. However, the main problem of securing the area and stabilizing it still remains.
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We have plenty if experience guarding resources in places not belonging to us, but that doesnn't make it right. It's not our oil. At the end of the day, the oil, the land, the culture still belongs to someone else. We should be helping them rebuild their econemy, not helping ourselves. The administration keeps cramming the words 'freedom' and 'rebuilding' down our throats. If we want Iraq to be a successful and liberated nation in the future, we need to ensure their economic stability by helping them to develop the means to produce and export oil by thenmselves. This includes everytrhing from chemistry in schools, to security training. This is all hypothetical, because the way things are going, our military will be there for a very long time.
In the real world, what we should be doing is investing our $200 billion in as many foreign companies as American companies. If we can jump start buisnesses in the middle east, we can build a larger economic safty net throughtout the whole reigion. In the long run, we would help relations and make them more likely to deal with us when we are in need of oil in the future. Kill them with kindness, not semiautomatic weapons and humvees.
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Originally Posted by jorgelito
My position (in short and simply stated) is that the US made a mess, the US needs to clean it up. Personally, I also fall into the group of people that think we shouldn't have gone in the first place, but we can't unring the bell. IMO, we should at least "do the right thing" (subjective, I know) and fix the situation first. I believe that securing the area (for all) and stability is the main priority, then we (the US) can scram.
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Well what do we doi now that the bell is rung?