Quit american
World news Agencies are full of headlines that the United States will withdraw its troops from Iraq before the end of this year. This was reported by both representatives of the Barack Obama administration and Pentagon officials. At the beginning of November, the Iraqi Committee for Defense and Security prepared a statement stating that American troops would be withdrawn from Iraq before next year. Whether the withdrawal of troops will be complete, or the Americans will nevertheless leave a certain amount of force "for every fireman" in Iraq - this is one of the main intrigues of the "joint" US-Iraqi decision.
So, December 12, Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Al-Maliki, together with US President Obama signed an agreement that, before 31 December of this year, American troops leave Iraq after more than eight years of war, first with the Saddam Hussein regime, then with terrorism and extremism for democratization country. Such language suggests that Barack Obama considers the US army to be the undisputed winner, and the current Iraqi leadership, in principle, is not against this kind of vanity. In the characteristic manner of the main world leader, Barack Obama, at a joint press conference, he expressed the view that the Allied army brought true democracy to Iraq, and that the Iraqi people should know that in this world they have someone to rely on.
I wonder if Obama himself considers his words weighty and whether there is at least one sane person in the world who is inclined to think that the American eight-year-old (even almost nine-year-olds) in Iraq worked for the good of this Middle Eastern state. Let us assume that we took Mr. Obama’s words at face value, and now we will do a small comparative analysis of the situation that was in Iraq before the beginning of the “democratization” and after its “triumphal march” through the streets of Iraqi cities and villages.
One of the indicators of the "success" of American actions in Iraq is the reduction of the level of education to critical indicators. If in the 2002 year, Iraqi higher education was considered almost the benchmark in the entire Arab world, then according to recently published data, about 15% of modern Iraqi youth refused even to start studying in regular schools. Many of them motivated their decision by the fact that truly religious schools should be created in Iraq and they are not going to study in secular schools. One can imagine what forces “prompted” to seven-year-old Iraqis to announce the creation of religious schools. It is also possible to imagine what kind of education young Iraqis will receive in such schools. Every year, starting with 2003, the number of non-literate Iraqis is increasing. And if initially it seemed that such a trend could be reversed, today a generation of young people has grown up who don’t understand at all why they need to learn to read, count and write, if any question can be solved with the help of weapons. The actions of the American contingent have become a vivid example for many young Iraqis.
Let us turn to the demographic situation in Iraq. During the time the Americans and their allies decided the future of Iraq, a huge number of people left this country, most of whom were educated people. More than four million people in Iraq were forced to go abroad (in Syria alone, according to the most conservative estimates, today there are more than nine hundred thousand Iraqis who fled from the endless war of recent years). In addition, nearly two million Iraqis were forced to become refugees within their own country, that is, they had to go to other parts of Iraq due to the loss of shelter caused by the fighting.
In some Iraqi provinces, the number of inhabitants has been halved. At the same time, the unemployment rate, for example, in the northern territories of Iraq reaches 40%! It turns out that almost half of the population of these areas has no productive peaceful occupation, and, therefore, the war has recently become the only source of income for them. This also applies to endless abductions and the arms trade. And after the withdrawal of American troops, these people will have to look for a new use for themselves, without releasing the weapons of their hands. And you can not go to the fortuneteller, but say at once that the future of these people is the same extremism, and the same terrorism that Barack Obama “defeated”.
In addition, in today's Iraq almost no one can feel safe. Inter-ethnic and interfaith disunity has escalated. The country remains a huge number of undocumented weapons that members of terrorist associations will never surrender, and it is unlikely that someone will succeed in getting them to do it. In order to adjust the familiar life of the Iraqi leaders will have to look for compromises between individual clans, make economic concessions. This is manifested today. Additional millions are allocated from the American treasury in order for the US troops to be allowed to quietly leave the tribal representatives, under whose control the Baghdad-Kuwait highway is under control. Wow winners - pay a defeat contribution to blow their feet! ..
Let's not forget that the departure of Americans from Iraq cannot be called 100%. The Pentagon says military advisers and other representatives of the United States Army will remain in Iraqi cities to help the new Iraqi authorities keep the situation under control. And to keep the situation under the control of the Iraqi authorities is unlikely to succeed, since the level of corruption in the country is such that even a positive initiative turns into a farce. So it turns out that “fallen democracy” on Iraq will result in a new chaos, which, possibly, the neighboring states will overwhelm. This is very likely, if only because Iraq has already been "chosen" by Islamic fundamentalists who want to show who will now be the main one in the country. Therefore, the words about the bright future of Iraq, to which Barack Obama and his predecessor George W. Bush have led, look silly.
Iraq, lying in ruins with incessant explosions and hostage-taking, incessant firefights and clan fighting - this is what, it turns out, is true democracy from the point of view of the United States.
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