Foreign Policy: Maliki is trying to turn the clock back and ask America to increase security coopera

Foreign Policy: Maliki is trying to turn the clock back and ask America to increase security cooperation with government





30-10-2013 10:28 AM



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Iraq ignites after two years of leaving the American forces of the country, violence raging challenging politically dangerous for the Obama administration, and a warning of what could happen in Afghanistan if it were to withdraw all military units the U.S. from that country.
trying to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who will visit Washington to seek U.S. assistance in its fight against Islamic militants who have killed more than five thousand Iraqis since the beginning of the year, including 600 in the current month only.
there is a bitter irony contained in Maliki's flight; In autumn 2011 conducted the Obama administration and the Maliki government negotiations reached an impasse on an agreement that would paves the way for continued U.S. military presence in the country by ensuring complete immunity to American from prosecution, he took Obama to withdraw all the pieces fighter after he explained Maliki's inability to hold such a convention.
After two years, trying to Maliki's re-clockwise back and ask the United States to increase security cooperation with the government.
Despite the fact that Afghanistan is not Iraq, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai faces a dilemma similar regarding the future of the U.S. military presence in his country, where Washington is demanding immunity troops as it did with Baghdad as opposed to Karzai publicly available, as did al-Maliki.
this impasse pay administration Obama to think something was unthinkable even a few months ago, a complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which is considered the battlefield essential to the war on terrorism.
says Douglas Oliphant, retired officer who had already served in Iraq as a director at the National Security Council during the Bush administration Obama 'should never underestimate the ability of foreign leaders on a misunderstanding of the red lines that we set. I think al-Maliki that we can ask nothing less than a guarantee of immunity and was wrong to do so. Perhaps offend Karzai also understanding that this is a red line for us. 'It
was not supposed to play this way in any of the two countries. In Iraq, he called for a bilateral agreement in 2008 between al-Maliki and President Bush to leave all U.S. ground forces country by the end of 2011, the date did not think a lot of officials the possibility of its implementation. In late 2011 was still some senior officers Americans expect the deal to keep the 8-15 thousand fighters in Iraq indefinitely, but they were wrong; When insisted al-Maliki on his position on the issue of immunity, surprised Obama Pentagon ordering the withdrawal of all the pieces of the country by December 31 The first of the same year.
had to withdraw a direct impact on the Iraqi army emerging; Fbmah sight lost Iraqi military trainers Americans who were living with them and fighting on their side also been withdrawn military specialists who were helping Iraqis in the collection and analysis of information battle that reduced the size of the information held by Iraqi forces More senior al Qaeda leaders, or for high-profile attacks in the future.
On the other hand reported a Corner that Maliki's visit to Washington comes at a time deteriorate the security situation in Iraq, and thousands of Iraqis fall at the hands of extremists allied with al-Qaeda, and the western border with Syria open to the utmost What allows for extremists of all sects to fight alongside different parties in Syria and Iraq.
Upon Maliki list for shopping contain materials U.S. military to help control the border include aircraft march, helicopters or devices intercept wireless.
, but the basic problem is that al-Maliki has collected in his grip authority exercised against the Sunnis, while maneuvering the Kurds to secede from the central government in Baghdad. In the next April, will be Iraq's parliamentary elections confusing It is believed that al-Maliki will compete again on the job first.
In short, Iraq is suffering from the chaos of internal caused the main Obama's decision to withdraw all U.S. troops, prompting al-Maliki to walk into a dead end.
It is very likely to be approved by House White material aid against the empty promise of al-Maliki not to allow flights to continue carrying Iranian arms and men to the Assad regime in Syria. In fact, maybe Maliki from the Iranians will be asked to reduce the number of those trips.



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