The enemy we fight in Iraq
It is time we figured out who we want to win in Iraq. Us for sure but I'm having trouble deciding who else? In this case it is hard to see who it is in Iraq that we will have won from.
When we won over Germany in WWII, we won over Germans, nearly all of them. The party in power were twerps, but the Germans elected them and wanted what Hitler was doing.
In Japan after WWLL, is was certain that we had won over the Japanese people, all of them. Also, the Royalty was defeated.
The Japanese people also wanted us to lose and were willing to all go down trying, until the Emperor said no. We let him survive for that.
I'm not going to speak of Afghanistan, because actually, we should still be there and there only, but that is another matter.
Now, Iraq. With three distinct peoples there: Sunni,(believe in the three leaders in charge after Mohammad's death) Shia,(believe in son-in-law of Mohammad) (both a faction of Islam) and the Kurds---mostly Turks.
The Shia are in the majority, and did control and be made up of most bureaucrats, professionals, and higher education.
They all did cooperate somewhat under the Sunni of Saddam (he was an easter and christmas muslim) in so far as some education, some professionals, but not many.
So, who should win? Who do we put in power? They all want oil, they all want religious power in a given area (means not much of a central government)and they certainly don't want Americans there trying to put a government together, not even in Baghdad alone.
The think they must war against each other until a winner is evident, then they will live with that until someone else changes it again. Maybe a hundred years from now!
We don't understand that, now do we?
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