Putting Saddam's conviction into perspective

[brownjenkins]

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

Letting them choose their own future is what we're doing. They have a freely elected government in power now. If we pull out of Iraq, it will be keeping them from choosing their own future. Then other major players can choose it for them. The Sunni insurgency is not representative of the will of the people in Iraq, as the massive election turn-outs has proven.

No. We have choosen their future for them, or at least tried. Maybe, now that they don't have a dictator over their heads for the first time in history, they simply can't survive as one nation. This happened in Yugoslavia. It was bloody, but what they have now there is what they have mostly been able to make for themselves.

You must let countries resolve their own conflicts as much as possible. It's the same reason why Israel continues to be such a problem. Because we have propped them up for generations instead of letting them succeed or fail on their own.

It's the only real solution. And it's also the solution that we will come to eventually. Until then we are just prolonging the problems.