US Forces finally out of Iraq
Thomas Friedman of New York Times analyzes the costs and benefits of the war on Iraq and speculates on Iraq's future. He states that the Iraqi war cost too much for it to be a success: in American lives, Iraqi lives, American dollars, and time. Later, Friedman analyzes how the war was mainly between the Al Qaeda and their ideology versus the Western/ American mentality. For the war's benefits, Friedman congratulates Iraq's first ever agreement between the state's Sunni, Shiite, and Kurd people. Friedman is anxious for the future of Iraq because if the different ethnic groups can coexist, it can become a strong democracy needed in the volatile Arab world.
Friedman views the war on Iraq extremely objectively. Throughout the column, Friedman analyzed the pros and cons of the war as well as speculated as to how Iraq can blossom into a full-fletched democratic state. He refers to a number of states undergoing the same issue as Iraq and really raises the question of unity among ethnic groups in Iraq. Friedman also includes Russia in his example of how Iraq could become in the future, a loosely-held democracy, with a brief mentioning of how Russia is finally turning towards a stronger democracy in the event of new thinking. Friedman wants to let the American people whether or not the Iraqi war was worth it and how Iraq can blossom and really make all the American lives and money worth it.
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