Irony in Iraq.

Our continued presence in Iraq is the very thing that prevents us from getting out of there. The Iraqis have an army and police force that can deal with much of the country, the only parts of the country that they can not deal with are those that have been destabilised by the actions of some of our soldiers and the miss-management of our army. One could say that this is the reason why we should stay there so we can sort out the problems that we have created and that is of course the right thing to do however statistically speaking the longer that we stay there the more likely it is that something else will happen that will destabilise things even further, of course the Iraqis are quite capable of doing this themselves and in fact that is what is happening. They are currently having a civil war, one that we can not stop; it simply has to be allowed to take its course. Only when every ounce of American and British influence has been removed from Iraq’s political process will the majority of Iraqis feel as though they have their own country, only then can democracy really happen because only then will the majority of Iraqis feel that they are allowed to make their own decisions without any outside interference. Then perhaps we can return to the country only it will have to be on the Iraqi’s terms and not our own and this may mean that we won’t be allowed back at all. The reason why we almost certainly won’t leave is that we can’t take the risk that the next Iraqi government will not allow us to stay there and have some of their oil at a cut price rate. The fact of the matter is one way or another if the Iraqis want a harsh totalitarian Islamic dictatorship then that is what they will get one way or another by hook or by crook by democracy or by bloody revolution. There is nothing that we can do about it and I think our continued presence might make it more likely not less.