by Odemgbe

Created on: February 11, 2008   Last Updated: December 02, 2010

The War in Iraq has faced enormous challenges since inception: huge international opposition to the war has cost the United States her initial international support following the September 11 attacks. Al Qaeda appears to be gaining in all fronts and the Republican Party of the United States is almost certainly going to lose the next Presidential elections due to negative public opinion arising from dissatisfaction with the results of a long drawn and seemingly endless war. Most radical Arabs see the US led coalition as occupation forces and are very willing recruits to Al Qaeda.

The crucial questions tackled by this article are: is the war in Iraq justified? What are we not doing to end the war quickly and what are the clear cut plans for victory?

The major problem with the war is that haste has created inefficiency. Many facts exist which reveal that terrorists are disobeying Islamic tenets as contained in the Holy Koran and Sunnah. This ought to have acquired the local support (through alliance building) necessary to end the war quickly. Instead, we have United States officials referring to Al Qaeda terrorists as "Islamic fundamentalists", "Jihadists", "Mujahideen" etc. This inadvertently creates Islamophobia which serves as the motivation and driving force of al Qaeda's recruitment, indoctrination and funding! This problem indicates that the intelligence agencies of the United States and allies have been infiltrated by allies of the terrorists.

The impatience of the American public is another worry. The people clamor for a quick end to the conflict without solving the terrorist infiltration problem. The people ought to remember that the inability of the Clinton Administration to finish off Al Qaeda in Afghanistan (1998) handed Al Qaeda the opportunity to achieve their biggest victory yet: the 9/11 attacks. History threatens to repeat itself as the Democrats seem poised to win and determined to redraw prematurely from Iraq (thereby resulting in Al Qaeda's increasing popularity due to victory over the United States). This could spell doom for both Iraq and the United States: many Arabs will see Al Qaeda as the victorious Mujahideen and will flock to Al Qaeda camps in droves. We cannot guarantee the safety of any nuclear arsenal of Muslim States such as Pakistan in such an event.

Back to the question: is the war in Iraq justified? History records that in 680 A.D., Iraqi Muslim sects (Sunnis and Shiites) waged war amongst themselves. Known as the Battle of Camels,

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