A Marshal Plan for Iraq?, What happens once we're gone? Are the candidates talking a

[OrangeEmpire]

What's done is done, and I'm worried about what will happen there once the foreign (read American) presence is removed. The initial plan was to make Iraq a functional democracy. But has any real thought been put into how this is ultimately to be done?

Are there any plans to assist Iraq with things like economic and infrastructure development?

Unless a lot of time and money are put into this, Iraq will remain an unstable element in the middle east for the forseeable future. The negligance that followed up the initial victories in Afghanistan are an example of what might happen if withdrawl is too premature, with the resurgance of the taliban and all.

What are the candidates saying they're going to do about this? Have any of them even mentioned it?

Thoughts?

 

[MG1968]

Obama will dispatch William Ayers to Baghdad to assist in the identification of bombs left by criminal gangs intent on destabilizing the government.

 

[BigPapaVol]

What's done is done, and I'm worried about what will happen there once the foreign (read American) presence is removed. The initial plan was to make Iraq a functional democracy. But has any real thought been put into how this is ultimately to be done?

Are there any plans to assist Iraq with things like economic and infrastructure development?

Unless a lot of time and money are put into this, Iraq will remain an unstable element in the middle east for the forseeable future. The negligance that followed up the initial victories in Afghanistan are an example of what might happen if withdrawl is too premature, with the resurgance of the taliban and all.

What are the candidates saying they're going to do about this? Have any of them even mentioned it?

Thoughts?

Until the Iraqi army can, at our request, break it off in the militias and hold its own against Iran, we aren't rolling out of there.

 

[therealUT]

Starting in January, unilateral missions will cease in Iraq. At that point, all missions will be "planned" by ISF and executed with ISF as the "main effort".

It should get pretty interesting over there by about February...

 

[OrangeEmpire]

He is back!

 

[BigPapaVol]

Starting in January, unilateral missions will cease in Iraq. At that point, all missions will be "planned" by ISF and executed with ISF as the "main effort".

It should get pretty interesting over there by about February...

that's really the only way we're ever gonna know where their loyalties and capabilities lie.

 

[therealUT]

that's really the only way we're ever gonna know where their loyalties and capabilities lie.

I have a feeling that right now is the wrong time to do so. Once the ISF start planning their own missions and securing intel on their own targets, I have a feeling they will target the Sons of Iraq.

I think it would be better to first re-integrate the Sunni population into the voting process, then integrate them in to the military, and then let the ISF start going after their own targets.

My own premonition is that a Civil War will erupt if those steps are not taken first.

 

[MontereyVol]

Its going to be an all out civil war.