What to you think will happen in Iraq after the US leaves? Democracy or Muslim extremism?
morena leppert asked:
In Iraq the US is making great sacrifices in soldiers’ lives and spending billions of $ in order to bring it democracy.
In Iraq the US is making great sacrifices in soldiers’ lives and spending billions of $ in order to bring it democracy.
Do you think democracy will survive there after the US leaves, or will it soon degrade to Muslim fundamentalism ?
Jerome Bick
Tags: Leaves, Muslim Fundamentalism
The latter. There willbe a lot of blood letting.
Either brutal fascist Dictatorship, or brutal religious dictatorship.
Who cares, we should just get out of the region immediately and accept defeat
As soon as the door hits the USA on the way out the lawmakers will be deliberating on how to incorporate Sharia law
Honestly, it will be what the people in the nation allow to happen. Because I don’t look to control the other nations of the world, nor is it the job of this nation to tell other nations how to run their countries and governments.
Sometimes we Americans are very arrogant. Our way is not the best way – just the best way for us.
Iraq was a Democracy before Bush invaded. All of the problems in Iraq can be contributed to Bush’s illegal war.
Depends if the US stays long enough for the Muslim meltdown to happen.
Muslim extremism. and I don’t think, I am absolutely sure.
Freedom cannot be given, it has to be fought for and the Iraqi’s don’t have that kind of will.
Saddam ruling over Iraq kept Iran from invading.
When our troops leave, I bet Iran will invade Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
And then we’ll be called to help bail them out.
Screw the middle east.
There will probably be a revolution led by the clerics to overthrow the government and install a system similar to the one in Iran. Islam and democracy aren’t compatible according to the clerics. The only thing that might help the democratic government stay in power is the division between the Shiite and Sunni Muslims, and the divisions withing those divisions, and maybe the Kurds.
There is no experience in the region with western style pluralism and democracy. You can’t force a foreign political system onto a nation in a very short period of time. Political system must reflect culture and social values. In order to keep the country from splitting along ethnic and religious lines, or becoming a theocracy, the US will have to prop up some sort of strong-arm leader. If not militarily, then economically. Until Kuwait in 1990, Saddam was the darling of the U.S. administration. Another Saddam, albeit more co-operative and one who pays at least lip service to human rights, would be a dream come true.
Don’t panic, we are drawing down the troops, not leaving. We will leave a force behind just like the 50,000 in Iraq.
I really think that is the business of the Iraqis, not our business, never was. Leave them alone to be whoever they are.
read a history book…muslims do not change