Yostivanich

I read some two inter­est­ing arti­cle that got me think­ing about a pos­si­ble solu­tion to Iraq. What if we let the Iraq’s decide if the US should stay the course in Iraq or pull out? I know rad­i­cal idea let­ting the peo­ple we are directly affect­ing decide their fate.

Two things got my radar buzzing on this idea, the first is a Freako­nom­ics arti­cle that actu­ally dis­cussed the idea and a BBC arti­cle that dis­cussed how Iran was say­ing that the root cause of the cur­rent prob­lems is the pres­ence of the US. Now obvi­ously Iran has two major rea­sons to be say­ing this, so I wouldn’t sug­gest that they are being entirely truth­ful or sug­gest­ing that if we left, the insur­gency would end. First off, Iran hates the US, sec­ond they are known to be fund­ing parts of the insur­gency in Iraq.

How­ever what would hap­pen if we let the Iraq’s decide if we should stay or go? Two ques­tions about this idea, first would we lis­ten con­sid­er­ing we have a habit of ignor­ing for­eign elec­tions if we don’t like them *cough* Pales­tine *cough*, and sec­ond how would the Iraq’s vote.

I hon­estly don’t have an answer to this ques­tion, but it seems a fair solu­tion to the prob­lem. On the Repub­li­can side, the Iraq’s are mak­ing a free choice to decide which way to go and they pass the buck off on deal­ing with Iraq for the elec­tion. On the Democ­rats side they get to pass the buck off on deal­ing with Iraq. Although I don’t see either party real­ing going for this, espe­cially the Repub­li­cans it’s an interesing idea, and one that I would like to seee mov­ing for­ward some.