Rifty
While I have the utmost respect for the US troops and all other guys and gals over there, I think there is a fair number of not so bright people in the US millitary.
I love Japanese girlsHi, I am a China man residing and working in Singapore for many years. I read with interest all the postings...
Thats not to say they dont do a damn good job... but that they can be easily influenced by peer pressure, and poo, who wouldnt really in a hostile and violent place, given orders to kill the enemy, seeing your buddies end by what you thought was just another civillian and praying you make it home...
Still, parading a bunch of suspected persons around and humilliating them as was the case with England, is a far more tolerable crime than with no judgement but the obligation of defensive jihad and no jury but allah, to cut the heads off innocent people or shoot them for being so called collaborators.
However, she definitely is being used as a scape goat.
But establishing a viable government in Iraq, considering the US demolished the regime saddam had ruled over for many years with many suffering innocent people, and restoring vital facillities that were also destryoed in the process of a war, is something that needs to be done, and the insurgents are not accepting that.
I dont think the US would get a fair go either way. It'd be "You ruined the place and then left, you heartless swine!" or "Get out, youre not wanted here, you heartless swine!"
The opinion does seem that they dont want the US forces there but is that because they are seen to be a invading force, or because they feel that islam is threatened ?
One is a fairly valid concern. the other is xenophobia, and we unfairly cop that and take it all the time...
The bottom line really comes down to the foreign insurgents, fedayeen and baathist thugs, who are largely not even Iraqi people, and are blowing up their own people whilst attempting to kill occupying Coalitian forces. They *ARE* a threat to Iraq as much as Saddam was.
I dont give poop about this WMD thing, either, just for the record. Saddam was a sadistic bastard, and both of his sons were also. They needed to be removed, and a lot of the Iraqi people are thankfull to the Coalition for this. They just think they have outstayed their welcome..
Yep, living under a dictatorship is no different to being in a government prison, in both of these cases.
China still has a lot to think about too, in that respect.
If the Coalition forces pulled out today, that would unfortunately give the most powerfull violent thugs the upper hand, and then we'd be right back to square one.
Also, the two main insurgent forces in Iraq, tawhid wal-jihad and ansar al-sunnah, have very close ties to al qaeda, and thats not good either.
Well, a nuke would solve it once and for all... bugger the geneva convention on the matter.. ;)
Seriously, I agree on the basis. But what the real situation is, is an ever changing enbreasty.
One goes out, another comes in. No win if you continue, but big lose if you stop.
