Todays meeting with the Iraqi Study Group was just a step towards fixing the issues in the Iraq war. President Bush's ultimate goal in Iraq is still "a government that can sustain, govern and defend itself and serve as an ally in this war on terror". Which I think is a very important belief at this stage of the game. We are not able to just leave Iraq, we would leave the Iraqi citizens virtually powerless to a Civil War. A Civil War in Iraq would be bad for the entire region and the rest of the world at large. Today we no longer fight individual wars with individual endings each conflict, causes changes in the others, they are all connected. We must look to resolve the current conflict. One way to resolve it is to end it like America did in Korea, by splitting the country. The problem with that is that in this new world with terrorism allowing the terrorist to exist in any part of Iraq would leave the world open to more terrorist attacks. The resolution offered by Sen. John McCain which Americans as a whole do not seem to agree with. He says that in order to win this war we must see a dramatic increase in ground forces. I agree with Sen. McCain, the only way to win this war is to redeploy troops into Iraq, going back in with a larger force finishing what we started. I do not think this will end like the first Gulf War, with America pulling out before the job is done.
What do you think?
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