Post by subdjoe on Jun 2, 2008 14:46:43 GMT -5
Good question, Iraqvet.
First, infrastructure - pull out Haliburton, Bectel and such as much as possible. Get Iraqi companies doing most of the work.
Second, security. Set up a Ft. Benning, or Camp LeJune style training system over there. Bring their military and poice forces up to speed, and instill in them the pride and professionalism that the US forces have. Let them know in no uncertain terms that they need to step up to the plate and take over soon. Maybe some sort of economic incentive can be used to spur them on.
Third, and most difficult, politics, and this ties in with security to some extent. Tell them they need to start behaving like a nation, not a bunch of tribal warlords manuevering for personal advantage. Yes, we will support them but they need to get on with it.
All that said, we need to remember that they are trying to build a brand new nation. Look at how long it took for the US to even come up with a constitution. And then the major changes that Lincoln forced on us during the Civil War.
The strong-arm government they were under for so long is gone, they have no real history for a united democratic republic of the kind we would like to see. And which we may never see. Millenia old cultural norms seem to indicate that they will not become a democratic repubic, but one never knows.
First, infrastructure - pull out Haliburton, Bectel and such as much as possible. Get Iraqi companies doing most of the work.
Second, security. Set up a Ft. Benning, or Camp LeJune style training system over there. Bring their military and poice forces up to speed, and instill in them the pride and professionalism that the US forces have. Let them know in no uncertain terms that they need to step up to the plate and take over soon. Maybe some sort of economic incentive can be used to spur them on.
Third, and most difficult, politics, and this ties in with security to some extent. Tell them they need to start behaving like a nation, not a bunch of tribal warlords manuevering for personal advantage. Yes, we will support them but they need to get on with it.
All that said, we need to remember that they are trying to build a brand new nation. Look at how long it took for the US to even come up with a constitution. And then the major changes that Lincoln forced on us during the Civil War.
The strong-arm government they were under for so long is gone, they have no real history for a united democratic republic of the kind we would like to see. And which we may never see. Millenia old cultural norms seem to indicate that they will not become a democratic repubic, but one never knows.
