"The Surge"

I was not sure what the surge was. So I finally went and looked it up. The "troop surge" is a phrase commonly used to describe U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to increase the number of American troops deployed to the Iraq War to provide security to Baghdad and Al Anbar Province. It entails more diplomatic communication as well, but these poor troops that keep getting deployed. The war in Iraq is a war that is going to be around for another 8 to 10 years at least. The reality of the situation is that we went into a territory where we were not familiar with, we were not prepared. We didn't realize are the negative that would come along with destroying Iraq.

Iraq is an extremely fragmented country with 15-20% of there population being Sunni Muslim, 15-20% being Kurds, and 55-60% being Shi'a Muslim. The majority has been extremely misrepresented. They have not been represented in government and have been treated as second class citizens. This is the reason for the civil war that is going on in Iraq after the invasion. The invasion prompted much of the instability to intensify in the country. Unfortunately more U.S. troops and innocent Iraqi civilians are going to have to pay the price for this unfortunate and mis calculated war. If the United State pulls out anytime soon it will just crumble the region. A presence of Iraqi authority and military force needs to be built before evacuating the country. Without that who knows what state Iraq could be in the next 8 to 10 years.