The Economist's Digest 3

Why they should stay
(Originally from The Economist Sep.15~21)

Summary:
Why don’t the American armies leave Iraq? Do they like to stay there? Certainly not! Congress(美國國會) also wanted to bring them home. However, a general there told them if taking their armed force away, there must be in trouble because the situation is still not stable.
Although there’s a little strange in the attitude that the general and the ambassador who want to keep American armies in Iraq, inevitably the leave of American armies may shake the situation in Iraq. Some politicians (in both American tow main parties) say their armies in Iraq exactly have lost the power. Thus, even if Iraq would never come good, the US president’s insistence on keeping armed force in Iraq makes this popularity down because there’s not a good cause for American armies to stay there and the armies haven’t improve the situation but given reasons for terrorists to act.
On the other hand, people in Iraq don’t like American armies stay in their country became more and more. Some is because they lack confidence in them; others even think they made things worse. People in some areas in Iraq agreed to be governed by American force, according to the general; these areas have fewer terrorist killings. But the number is still little.
While, according to the statistic, the Shia, a Muslim sectarian(教派) in Arabian world, seem to want to get rid of Sunnis (the other sectarian) in the country, and the American force is the only one now who can stop them. Compared with foreigners, Iraqis prefer to stay unified than separate because of religious sectarian.
Americans have been frustrated because they invade the civil war in Iraq---and they are very regretful! There’s little hope for Iraq, but it’s possible its own non-religious armies will replace the American armies.
Maybe the invasion of American force is helpful for Iraq, but it’s not proved yet and nobody dares to say so.

What I thought:
America keeps armies in Iraq is for money but not for” grabbing” money. If the armies leave Iraq, there must be wars and it’ll harm global economic. At first, maybe the Americans want to get some benefit---but they’re wrong. Like the past Vietnam War, they didn’t get ant thing but lose their money and soldiers, and it even became a duty to stay in Iraq. Obviously, most of Americans don’t like this and want their armies back. America always troubles other countries; every time learning a lesson, they’ll do it again.