Reply #3: It is not so much wrong as it is, Ill-advised. [View All]

[Brian Sweat]

The logic behind waging a war for humanitarian purposes may sound a little bizaar, but it is not. The lives lost in waging the war could pale in contrast to the lives lost as a result of inaction, but there has to be some promise that the war will end the suffering caused by a despotic government. The problem is that we, as a country, do not have the will to end the suffering in Iraq. To do so would require the Balkanization of Iraq. The northern area would become an autonomous region controlled by the Kurds. The south would be controlled by the Shi'a Muslims. The middle would be left to the Sunni. We have absolutely no desire to create another Iran in the south of Iraq.

We cannot allow the Kurds to have a completely autonomous regio, because of fears that this would distablize the entire region. There are Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and several of the former Soviet Republics. All of these kurds want to be autonomous. They want to be part of one large Kurdish country. Once an autonomous Kurdish country exists, the Kurdish regions in all of these other countries will want to join it.

So instead, we will have to setup another tin-horned Sunni dictator to keep the Kurds and the Sha'i in line. They will resent the dictator and he will have to use abusive tactics to keep them in line.