Peace in Iraq 'will take at least five years to impose'

[steve2470]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1491683,00.html

Richard Norton-Taylor and Michael Howard in Iraq
Wednesday May 25, 2005
The Guardian

It could take at least five years before Iraqi forces are strong enough to impose law and order on the country, the International Institute of Strategic Studies warned yesterday.
The thinktank's report said that Iraq had become a valuable recruiting ground for al-Qaida, and Iraqi forces were nowhere near close to matching the insurgency.

John Chipman, IISS director, said the Iraqi security forces faced a "huge task" and the continuing ability of the insurgents to inflict mass casualties "must cast doubt on US plans to redeploy American troops and eventually reduce their numbers".

Insurgents have killed 600 Iraqis since the new government was formed. The IISS report said: "Best estimates suggest that it will take up to five years to create anything close to an effective indigenous force able to impose and guarantee order across the country."







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[still_one]

1. Peace will be in Iraq only after we have left

look at the history of viet nam, and this is much worse

[Lindacooks]

2. IMPOSE??

You can't 'impose' peace. All you can 'impose' is a military state, and there will ALWAYS be violence against it.

[sendero]

3. I love the....

.. facility with which these folks use weasel words.

"could take"? "as much as"?

Don't go out on a limb dumbass, because it could take an infinite number of years, that is, we will leave before it ever happens.

[xray s]

4. That report ia all bullshit

When they say it will take five years, they are really saying they have no idea how long it will take, because subjecting Iraq to five more years of this anarchy and chaos makes estimating anything IMPOSSIBLE!