Whose Fight is This?

Submitted by Ben Perry (United States), Dec 12, 2006 at 15:56

I would like to use the analogy of two street gangs (the blues and the greens) get into a street fight. You, as a burly Cop, try to break up this fight. There are about twenty guys on each side fighting. Trying to do your job of stopping this fight you get banged up yourself but the fighting still goes on. What is the most logical thing to do? Why doesn't the Cop just stand back and let these guys just kick the heck out each other until they run out of steam and then step in and do your job.

So, what am I saying? Have the Multi-national troops pull back to Kuwait and let the two factions in Iraq settle their differences and then decide if it is worthwhile going back in to control the factions. This might take a couple of years but its better than us getting kicked in the teeth. There's a Civil War going on there so let us not kid ourselves that this is not true.

Aside from this fighting....... What do we get out of this Civil war once this is settled. Do you think that the Iraqis want democracy for themselves? Their orientation is toward the Islamic religion and we can never break their thinking in a hundred years.

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