American Involvment in Middle East Peace

I feel honored to be your first opponent. I will first start by attacking my opponent's claims: My Opponent: "As we all know the majority of Arabic leaders in the Middle East want nothing to do with America. Most Arab leaders already have feelings against Israel and adding America to the mix only makes things worse." Okay, I do agree with you that most Arabic leaders do not want an American presence in the Middle East. However, think about this: Did Hitler want an American presence in Europe during WWII? I think that we can agree that the answer would be no, he did not. So why did we intervene? The U.S. intervened in WWII because Hitler was an evil man who was killing millions of his on people. This is eerily similar to the acts of Saddam Hussein. Does the word "Kurds" ring a bell? Kurds are an ethnic minority that live in the northern part of Iraq. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and up into the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the government of Iraq was supporting efforts to genocide these people. This is why we had to intervene. You see, America has a place in this world as the only superpower to ensure that people throughout the world are treated with dignity. My Opponent: "It seems to me that Israeli's need no assistance in taking care of the situation themselves." However, should they have to take care of the situation? The answer is no, no government/country/person should ever have to witness terrorism in their front yard. That is why we are there ridding the region of terrorists. My Opponent: "Americans have no experience in dealing with the kind of situation Israel has been in for the last 60 years of its existence." America has and will always take the brunt of any political thug. Look at the type of speech overflowing from the mouths of the leaders of North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela. They are clearly anti-American. The only reason more Americans don't die at the hands of these thugs is because we have a strong military and strong leaders. So, if America hasn't be through the same situation as Israel due to there high levels of military strength, then it is our moral right to expand our military all around the globe to try to share this security. Since you voted for Obama you must like the "Spread the wealth around" principle, what's wrong with a "Spread the security around" principle? My Opponent: Look at our mess in Iraq. What peace did we create? We have caused more problems then anything there. Destroyed their military, dismantled their sanitary systems...the place is in chaos. My opponent has just provided the excellent reason to stay in Iraq. We came into Iraq in 2003 with the goal of dismantling Saddam Husein's evil regime. The government of Iraq feel in early 2004. We accomplished our main goal. However, in the process of completing that goal we severely damaged Iraqi infrastructure (utilities, schools, hospitals, roads, etc). Even worse, Iraq did not have a government to oversee a repair of the infrastructure. So, in 2005 we implemented operation Iraqi Freedom. The three main goals of Iraqi Freedom were to set up a democratic government in Iraq, protect that government from terrorist insurgents, and to assist that government in rebuilding critical infrastructure. You see, after Operation Iraqi Freedom our soldiers were no longer soldiers, they were police and engineers. Their two main jobs were to enforce the laws and build schools, hospitals, roads, and provide utilities. So, the Iraq War is over it lasted from '03 to '04. Now, Iraq is just a law enforcement issue. Now to the reason to stay. Like you said, we messed up Iraq, there's no avoiding that. So, to leave now would be responsible. Why, we would only be putting the burden of rebuilding a nation on the new and fragile government of Iraq who is having to fight off those who wish to overthrow it. Like I said, spread the security around. I look forward to your rebuttals.