Why Iraq Has No Army by James Fallow

Why Iraq Has No Army by James Fallow

Before I start this paper, I just want to share that I totally oppose military recruiters targeting children who think they know everything because of their age who aren’t even old enough to legally drink. I think this and other factors make it very hard for Americans to trust that our government has the best of intentions at hand. Couple that with the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction found as we were told there would be makes it very hard to believe the reasons our president says we are staying in Iraq. I won’t lie and say I immerse myself in national news because I don’t. I don’t pretend to have all the facts or even a working understanding of what’s happening beyond my own back door. I realize I need to make more time for these things. I preface this paper with these facts because I believe this is the case of the majority of Americans today. We are so self-involved that we can’t come together to problem solve and that is the real reason we are at war and still in Iraq. We’re more interested in celebrity news than what’s going on in the world around us.

As to the article, James Fallow attempts to explain why the Iraqi’s don’t have public order. He believes there is no “single comprehensive explanation for what went wrong” (Fallows, 2005). Fallows went on to note that looting would make it extremely difficult for any army, American or Iraqi to “restore order” (Fallows, 2005). He also noted that because American soldiers didn’t respond appropriately