Thursday, July 10, 2014

Rolling Around in Iraq


People in the world today (aside from the current warring states) may thing it's just a life of school, work, food and sleep, not to mention food (did I mention food? Pretty sure I didn't mention food). Because of this, the thought of a civil war during present time is astounding. Iraq and Syria may as well be some tiny little skirmish between two adults. Yet really, Iraq is becoming more and more divided. Iraq risks a civil war as ISIS, a terrorist group linked to the famed al-Qaeda, is benefiting from Iraq's minority Sunnis. They are against the Prime Minister's government, which they say is led with discrimination.

   Recently, ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) have taken control of Mogul. How did they win, you ask? The Iraqi army ran away. Apparently, two divisions, or about 30k men, turned and ran away. Just like that. They were faced with only 800 fighters, but they ran away. Government officials are accusing the army of betrayal; why would thirty thousand men run away when they outnumbered the ISIS soldiers 3750:1?
America is helping fund Iraq, yet this is what's happening...

   So will the US be incorporated into the whole battle scheme? Most likely, no. The Prime Minister secretly asked the Obama administration to help by sending airstrikes, but so far is has been rejected. This whole battle is important because this war is causing "one of the largest and swiftest mass movements of people in the world in recent memory," says Save the Children. We've already experienced a tiny piece of immigration from Central America; imagine more and more from both places, and you have a gigantic amount of flocking.
   The public (by public I mean the global population) The global population, consisting of roughly 26,000 people in 25 countries, voted that US should withdraw all units from Iraq. Two thirds disapprove of America. The Iraqi opinion slightly favored US just after the invasion, yet before, about 85% opposed them. If the people of Iraq, the people actually getting attacked and beaten and killed don't really approve of us, even after helping...something's wrong. National pride may have to do with it, though my opinion is that there isn't enough national pride to sway your answer... 
   America's withdrawal allows room for other countries to intervene, though Iraq may not want it. It means Iraq will owe America some favors. The US has sacrificed lives and paid 1.7 trillion dollars for the war. Think of all the things you could do with that money! You could buy food, give money to the homeless and food! More importantly, the problems in the world, like world hunger. Which is food.
   All these conflicts are obsolete; Iraq in its current state cannot pay the US back, nor can it pay anyone that helps. They might be trying to win some of that money back by collaborating with others;-Countries, like Germany, have firms  that are interested in making deals for oil in Dhi Qar. Iraq Business News has been read in 189 countries, and that was in August of 2013. Now, a lot more people will be paying attention to Iraw's news. 
   The discontinuation of sending America's soldiers completely devastated Iraq in the December of 2011 and beyond. Days after the termination, Sunnis politicians stormed out of parliament. In January, at least 78 people were killed. Won't this happen again?
   The best way for Iraq to stay stable is to just let them go. America can't support them forever, but this parenthood is inevitable. The US will just have to baby Iraq until the Prime Minister gets it back together again.

    
This parenthood was probably planned, but it will last awhile...

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