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Originally Posted by demonrail666
It's true that extremism in Iraq is largely the result of our being there but to think that it'll simply disappear if we go is not realistic. We've created a situation and now we're bound to resolve it.
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I disagree that the situation was created by us. Or only by us. The US surely did some stupid things after the successful invasion which didn't help, but extremism in Iraq is to a large part a result of the destruction of Iraqi society by Baathism, which is/was the arab version of National Socialism. The baathist regime terrorized iraqi population for decades. Sunni minority ruled the shia arabs with an iron fist, so no wonder there's a lot of animosity between those two sects. Saddam tortured and killed people in a way that makes the post-invasion Abu Gheirab torture scandal look like Disney Land. Pre-March 2003 Iraq was a totalitarian police state that used terror and torture to control every aspect of people's life. Everyone had to live in constant fear, and one wrong word you utered could lead to being visited at night by secret police and taken away, than being tortured to death. But not only you, but your whole family could be slaughtered for one wrong or suspicious action by a member of the family.
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I wasn't in favour of the invasion from the beginning, and i'm still not.
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I wasn't neither, but back then, I didn't know much about Iraq anyways. I was just following an uneducated reflex..