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    THE IRAQ WAR REVEALS SERIOUS MISTAKES IN AMERICAN STRATEGIC THINKING

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    The American National Interest magazine said, in a report, that the war on Iraq revealed serious errors in American strategic thinking.
    The report indicated, “Recently, confrontations have erupted in Iraq and Syria between American forces and various factions with the support of Iran, and these confrontations are in fact due to a fundamental error in the design of the war, and are considered a continuation of it, according to John Mueller, the American political scientist. University of Ohio ”.
    "This should have been clear to the instigators of that war, even before it was launched in 2003," said Mueller, a senior researcher at the US Cato Institute, according to the report.
    He added, “There is an extensive study of the US Army, confirming that the vast majority of decisions in the Iraq war were taken by highly intelligent and experienced leaders. Nevertheless, the study concludes that the failure to achieve our strategic goals stems from thinking that implies systemic deficiencies, most notably that It seemed that American leaders believed that other countries in the region would not have a reaction. ”
    President George W. Bush, who upon assuming the presidency adopted a modest foreign policy, suddenly changed this course in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States. He declared that his country's "responsibility towards history" has now become "to rid the world." From evil ”. A few months later, Bush announced that despite the assumption that evil was everywhere, there was a special "axis", which lay mainly in North Korea, Iran, and Iraq.
    Mueller adds, "Iran has fully realized that it is in trouble, and so is Syria, which at times seemed to be on the list of targets presented by Bush and his clique of neoconservatives on an almost daily basis."
    The report indicates that, as an increase in emphasis, Military Counselor Richard Perle suggested shortly after the invasion of Iraq, the necessity of conveying a brief message to other hostile regimes in the region that it is: “Your turn is upon you.” Therefore, it became clear that it is in the interest of Iran and North Korea to work together. Up close, and providing protection for Shiite friends in Iraq, to ​​make the American presence there extremely miserable.
    On the other hand, North Korea, which is under threat, has withdrawn from the NPT and has devoted its efforts to obtaining nuclear weapons to deter any US attack.
    The crisis of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in
    addition to Iran and Syria, other foreign elements were attracted to Iraq, devoted to disrupting the presence of the occupier there and killing his forces. It houses thousands of terrorists who have devoted their lives to committing atrocities.
    Zarqawi’s association with Al Qaeda may have attracted new recruits and obtained financial and logistical support. Al-Zarqawi benefited more through the use of US soldiers as much violence in Iraq against his forces, which helped improve Zarqawi’s image in many Muslim countries as a hero of resistance, according to the report.
    Nevertheless, the reckless atrocities committed by Zarqawi's forces - such as beheadings in mosques, bombing stadiums, seizing hospitals, executing private citizens, and forced marriage - were ultimately self-destructive and led to the Iraqis' coup against these forces, and Among them were many who were fighting against the American occupation, either alone or in cooperation with Al-Zarqawi.
    Iran is victorious and America is failing in Afghanistan,
    and the US military, taking advantage of the estrangement between terrorists and Iraqi tribes, managed to some extent control the civil war in Iraq by 2009. But the campaign that was achieved through it resulted in the deaths of a thousand Americans, seven times the number it lost. The United States invaded Iraq in 2003.
    Mueller says that the defeat of Al-Zarqawi's forces was in the end, but that did not happen until after the Americans suffered heavy losses. On the other hand, Iran was, and still is, an element of harassment, pushed to that now also by the resentment of the sanctions imposed on it, and in fact of the matter. Strikingly, albeit frightening, the Army Study, in its assessment of the war in Iraq, concludes that "Iran appears to be the only victor."
    And in 2010, the briefings made it clear to US military commanders in Afghanistan that it was known that at no time had any attempt against the insurgency succeeded when the insurgents sought refuge in a deep safe haven across the border, and although they added that they hoped the situation in Afghanistan would be different. More than a decade after their pronouncements, this has yet to be proven.
    In the conclusion of his report, Mueller asserts that the relevant experience in Iraq indicates that the briefers were absolutely right, and if the United States does not want to directly fight an all-out war against Iran, which may result in another catastrophe in the Middle East, it is possible that Iranians go on forever.
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