A quarter of a century of American failure in Iraq

[ltr]A quarter of a century of American failure in Iraq[/ltr]

 Since 02/28/2016 19:15 (Baghdad time)
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[ltr]Considered The National Interest Journal of the American, a quarter of a century of failed Iraq policy began on 24 February 1991, when Washington launched its first ground invasion US of Iraq, where armed with the Bush administration, the father, commissioned internationalist US and legislative liberation of Kuwait, and participated in ground troops from more from 30 countries, and the Soviet Union was an active diplomatic partner.[/ltr]
[ltr]After intense air campaign lasted six weeks, it seemed that wild battle was over as soon as it began, showing American military superiority tremendous amount of technical and tactical sides, but amid talk of a new world order, it was not the invasion long as 100 hours only, only the first chapter of the novel tragic American long as 25 years in Iraq.[/ltr]
[ltr]• Saddam's dilemma[/ltr]
[ltr]The magazine says that keeping Saddam Hussein in power, was the right decision, but he was born a dilemma, because what you can do about a tyrant impossible to stop when alone ?, As was the case with Germany after the end of World War I, on the part of Saddam all the necessary to refuse a settlement after war, where the embargo imposed on Iraq to force him to withdraw from Kuwait after it completed a withdrawal, and because of not doing a serious attempt to reach a settlement sustainable after the end of that war, and that would put pressure on the Iraqi army to prevent chemical, biological and nuclear research procedure, and work to continue mitigate the disastrous effects of the embargo, it has led diplomatic efforts to prolong the period of sanctions.[/ltr]
[ltr]The National Interest and the US suggest that the willingness of Saddam to sacrifice the welfare of his people, give him a weapon diplomatically strong, enabling it to resist sanctions and weapons inspections, and recognizes when George W. Bush took office in 2001, the penal system began to fade, amid growing protests about the suffering of Iraqis.[/ltr]
[ltr]• Sept. 11[/ltr]
[ltr]The magazine pointed out that Osama bin Laden's attack on September 11, 2001, was a blow directed against the US military deployment in the Arabian Peninsula, but responded Bush administration, came the fatal foreign policy mistake in the form, not matched in modern American history, but war Vietnam.[/ltr]
[ltr]While ousted Saddam Hussein from power in less than four weeks, the US military's inability to impose order and security in Iraq after so incomprehensible, came disband the Iraqi army and Baath Party to exacerbate the effects of destruction continued throughout the decades of war and economic isolation, absolute powers failed Washington's containment, and could not 150 thousand US troops are eliminated.[/ltr]
[ltr]The National Interest and the US confirmed that terrorist organizations have long worked in the rough in the Middle East, but since the second US invasion of Iraq, was able to those organizations to recruit thousands of foreign fighters and bring them to the heart of the area, taking over large areas, and engage in widespread destruction process.[/ltr]
[ltr]• terrorist attacks[/ltr]
[ltr]According to statistics issued by the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, carried out in Iraq, 42% of the total suicide attacks that has across the world since 1982, and signed all of them after 2003, and prior to that year, the average suicide bombings in the world does not exceed 17 per year, but since 2003, those attacks rose to attack two thousand, increased by 370% annually.[/ltr]
[ltr]Two months prior to his departure from the White House, and he signed the Bush administration secure a bilateral agreement to withdraw US combat troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, and while many thought that the agreement will extend, but President Obama was determined to fulfill a promise during his election campaign to withdraw the entire US troops, He scored, in December 2011, but the desired stability and security in Iraq and the two seemed elusive.[/ltr]
[ltr]And in his stead, he entered Iraq in a war with militant terrorist forces, originated and grew up in the shadow of sectarian policies followed by al-Maliki, which are ignored by Washington, and then defeated the Iraqi army in front Daash in Mosul, and later in other parts of Iraq, and a new US bombing in August began a campaign August 2014, the culmination of a quarter century of the American experiment a failure, and the failure to address Iraq's internal problems, whether through containment, siege or regime change.[/ltr]


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