Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraqi Parliment Bombed
Nation Building and counter insurgency are tasks that often take decades to complete. Of course it has yet to be accomplished. Such task have never been accomplished in such a short time frame. You have to build a government that is first able to provide security for the people which will allow economic growth. The local population will gradually support and help the government more as their security and economic situation improves. The Iraqi military is four years away from having the size and combat capabilities needed for these task. The logistical component will take even longer to develop. As the government wins over more of the population that supports insurgents and militia's, either out of fear or genuine support, their strength will diminish.
The exact same process is under way in Afghanistan which has a far greater tribal history than Iraq. Lots of reconstruction projects get destroyed in Afghanistan, but there are many that survive and are benefiting the population. In both country's, its a gradual process of securing and building on many fronts, which if given the time and resources, will eventually succeed. Insurgents in both country's are banking on the fact that democratic country's often do not have the will to see such tasks through and are hoping that by raising the cost of both operations, they can convince the domestic populations of the country's involved to prematurely withdraw. It is the only way they can succeed, because in the long run, they simply do not have the money and resources that the occupying country's have, nor do they have the military capacity to push out the occupying forces.
Irvine511 said:
and it's yet to be accomplished. you cannot have a "non-hostile" (what could that mean?) "stable" governemnt in a coutnrywith an insurgency with indefensible borders and a population that identifies on the basis of ancient sects and tribes. you have no definable enemy for the government to protect it's citizens from, since said "enemy" is part of the government itself, and the government holds no appeal to the local population. just how are American troops supposed to wage war and reconstruct/rebuild at the same time?
there is no government. it only exists as a legitimizing tool for the genocidal purposes of the Shia militias.
Nation Building and counter insurgency are tasks that often take decades to complete. Of course it has yet to be accomplished. Such task have never been accomplished in such a short time frame. You have to build a government that is first able to provide security for the people which will allow economic growth. The local population will gradually support and help the government more as their security and economic situation improves. The Iraqi military is four years away from having the size and combat capabilities needed for these task. The logistical component will take even longer to develop. As the government wins over more of the population that supports insurgents and militia's, either out of fear or genuine support, their strength will diminish.
The exact same process is under way in Afghanistan which has a far greater tribal history than Iraq. Lots of reconstruction projects get destroyed in Afghanistan, but there are many that survive and are benefiting the population. In both country's, its a gradual process of securing and building on many fronts, which if given the time and resources, will eventually succeed. Insurgents in both country's are banking on the fact that democratic country's often do not have the will to see such tasks through and are hoping that by raising the cost of both operations, they can convince the domestic populations of the country's involved to prematurely withdraw. It is the only way they can succeed, because in the long run, they simply do not have the money and resources that the occupying country's have, nor do they have the military capacity to push out the occupying forces.