No way out from Iraq

I read an article about the war in Iraq. The article told me that the situation in Iraq is very bad and it is not a good situation to America. It gave me a briefing of how the war began and what’s up to this day. Simply, although we cannot say that America’s decision to begin a war was absolutely wrong, it is certain that the outcomes did not turn out to be as what it was in American governors’ mind. There seems to be no end in this war and more and more people are dying. There is a well-known Pay-Per-View in WWE, which is called ‘No Way Out.’ It really seems to be a ‘No Way Out’ to America.

Briefly speaking, the beginning and the current situation of this war is like this. After 9/11, America was really concerned about terrorism. It really wanted to keep itself from terrorism, didn’t want any similar event to happen. So, President Bush went on not only to protect America from terrorism but also to attack terrorists in advance. Iraq was somewhat known as a dangerous country. America assumed that Saddam Hussein has lots of mass destruction weapons in Iraq. So, American armies attacked Iraq. They simply won but that was not it. It turned out to be that there was no such thing as mass destruction weapon in Iraq. America got blames because most of countries thought that America was trying to achieve the oil in Iraq. In addition, even though America was the winner of this war, the war actually did not end. “Small wars” between US troops and terrorists such as al-Qaida are still in progress and there seems to be no way out of this serial disaster. Time went by and more and more people got dead. However, the situation did not change at all. America is still having difficulty dealing with terrorism and there is no certain prediction about when US troops will leave Iraq.

Frankly speaking, there are some good aspects that America has done in this war. The most important thing is that the collapse and death of Saddam Hussein actually brought some sort of democracy to Iraq. The thing is that that’s not what is important. America should leave Iraq as soon as possible. America had already lost justification when it couldn’t find mass destruction weapons in Iraq. Spending more time in Iraq and trying to make change the situation are making the situation worse. They should leave. Needless to say about the importance of people’s lives and peace, America and its alliances are having difficulties in economy. Ironically, most of people do know that the war in Iraq is very critical to the economy of America and its alliances, buy they don’t know about it concretely.

People in the world do know that America is a huge country. Not only its land-size but also its economy scale is humongous. Yet, people don’t know that military business such as selling weapons to other countries takes a lot of part of US economy. America earns lots of money by selling its military equipments to other nations. Many countries such as Korea are eagerly willing to pay lots of bills to buy US fighting planes. This really makes a lot of money for America. For example, although they lost in the war in Vietnam, America had made a lot of money due to this war. So, not only did America wanted to get oils in Iraq, but also wanted to makes use of its military stuffs by attacking Iraq. Plus, they wanted to show off to other nations about its militarily excellence, encouraging others to buys its fighter planes and such. However, America was somewhat wrong. America has already spent more than 800 trillion won in this war, which is more than 3 times of Korean national budget (250 trillion won). Moreover, there is no certain plan about when US will leave Iraq completely, which means they have to spend more money. This is a bad news to America.

For these reasons, America should get out of Iraq. Not only the matter of peace but also the matter of economy is threatening it. America should find a way although there seems to be no way.


Reference :http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSOD&mid=sec&sid1=108&oid=040&aid=0000050628


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