Pullng out of Iraq: Imagine the Blood Shed
Remember the Rwandan genocide? It was such a terrible time in history, but it will just repeat if we are not careful. The genocide in Rwanda was caused by the Dutch suddenly leaving the country after years of occupation and control of the government. Rival tribes then started to try to take power from one another, and mass killing rose up. This is almost exactly what will happen if we leave Iraq. It will be the same story. The Sunnis and the Shiites will battle for power without any outside force intervening. Each sect will massacre eachother and it will leave the country in shambles. We need to stay in Iraq until outside terrorist threats are quelled, and the Iraquis are taught how to run a democracy on their own. That is the only way for Iraq to become a stable country.
Another possible outcome of abandoning the occupation of Iraq could be an outside force replacing us as the occupiers. That outside force could be Iran or Al Qaeda. Imagine what the whole world would be like with an even stronger Iran or a whole country controlled by the most dangerous terrorist group. The world would not be a very safe place anywhere. The 4,000 Americans lost in Iraq pales in comparison to the possible deaths if we pull out of Iraq. We do not want to be the country responsible for this.
