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    [size=30]An American magazine presents proposals to restore Iraq from the grip of Iran after America lost the war
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    While Americans remember the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq war, which claimed the lives of more than 4,600 Americans and countless Iraqis, Time magazine presented an assessment of the war, stressing that it led to "destabilizing the Middle East, and ultimately benefited from Iran's aggressive and expansionist agenda by seizing on many political and military institutions in Baghdad and Damascus," stressing that the 2003 war weakened America's geostrategic position.  
      
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    The report of the famous American magazine, which was followed by "NAS", (March 24, 2023), cited the final study of the US government on the Iraq war, in which two central points emerge: First, the war should never have happened. Second, once the war began, it should not have been abandoned without leaving a stable Iraq, even if it meant staying for years.  
      
    The magazine emphasized that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a strategic folly and one of the worst foreign policy decisions in the history of the republic. The tainted and inaccurate intelligence provided a justification for disarming Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.  
      
    He pointed out: Pretending that Iraq could be a site of democracy in the Middle East or that it was inciting al-Qaeda terrorists were similar delusions. But the decision to invade challenged a larger reality, evident even before the war. Iraq provided a physical and practical barrier to Iran, a country with an active weapons of mass destruction program, in 2003.  
      
    Iran, which regularly calls for the destruction of the United States and actively supports our enemies, was the biggest and most obvious threat to our interests then and now. Regime change in Iraq has devastated the situation.  
      
    He added: Iraq's strategic geographic location in 2003 helped regional security by focusing Iran's attention and resources on the neighborhood. In addition to this geopolitical damage, the preemptive invasion, carried out without UN Security Council authorization and on the basis of questionable intelligence, squandered our international prestige and goodwill, which were abundant in the aftermath of 9/11.  
      
    According to the report, the region represents a vital strategic interest for the United States, as does preventing the expansion of Iranian influence. Unfortunately, the United States chose to ignore this reality and when it was politically expedient, withdraw from Iraq and hope for the best. Besides the mistake of the initial invasion, the withdrawal was almost a major strategic mistake, "placing the future of Iraq in the hands of a corrupt and sectarian prime minister bent on solidifying Shiite dominance and Iranian alignment."  
      
    The report emphasized: While the situation in Iraq has improved significantly since 2003, sufficient indications emerged in 2011 that progress was fragile. It was "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's sectarianism and tyranny, which would lead to more destruction in Iraq," had been fully exposed and reported to Washington. Torn by decades of war, sanctions and corruption, Iraq needed longer to recover and needed US help to prevent an Iranian takeover, according to the magazine.  
      
    However, the American report added that although we decided that we are done with Iraq and all the challenges associated with it, Iraq is not finished with us. "The American strategic shortsightedness enabled the Maliki government to kill Sunnis or deprive them of their rights and isolate the Kurds financially, which paved the way for the rise of ISIS and the return of American forces."  
      
    According to the magazine's assessment, Iraq today looks completely different, describing the current situation as follows: Iranian-backed militias that receive Iraqi salaries now outnumber the Iraqi army. The Department of Defense now includes officers and generals who have been designated as terrorists. Pro-Iranian militias appropriated state resources through political representation in parliament and control of key positions in lucrative ministries. Iran's influence is now waning in an unbroken arc from Tehran to the Mediterranean, and stretching through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.  
      
    According to Time, it would have been to keep US forces in Iraq a difficult decision for America, exhausted from the war. But a residual force that was intimately linked to key political goals and aimed at limiting Iranian influence could have prevented the treacherous strategic situation we face today: Iraq as a broken and devastated country, serving as a base and transit point for Iranian forces.  
      
    At the end of the report, Time mentions that America retains some tools to guide Iraq towards a more constructive and stable future. “The United States can impose massive economic costs on the Iraqi military and government to pull Iranian-backed terrorists from their payroll, stop transfers of US banknotes that inexplicably continue despite being laundered by Iran, and remove sanctions waivers.”  
      
    The magazine suggests Iraq free itself from dependence on Iran's artificial energy. Perhaps most importantly, "the United States must deter Iran militarily so that it reverses rather than expands its regional aggression." Only these measures are likely to reverse the sharp turn in Iraq's perilous future, a future that we began twenty years ago.  
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