Iraq today

Watching the news this morning about Iraq almost made me sick to my stomach, a self-satisfied commentator was reading from the teleprompter that some 500 Iraqi soldiers had died in battle and none of the US/UK forces. This is not a war, this is slaughter! This is such an unequal and unfair fight – and unjust too.

I am still not hearing any exit strategies, just rumours. The last one is that the us are planning to put some kind of military commander in place for about two years and in that period a cabinet will be formed and a president of some kind will be appointed, probabaly one of the expats. From all that I have heard, this will many of the people in this country very unhappy. I think there is a pretty good chance that this country will fall apart in three parts within the next 5 years or so and that this will result in civil unrest or war in Turkey and Iran… leading to utter destabilisation in the region for many years. Perhaps this is the American strategy? Scatter to the winds, set the Arabic people up against each other so that they kill each other and leave the US well alone – all the while leaving the field wide open for US business to plunder the area.

Call me paranoid but the US foreign policy over the past 30+ years more or less followed this kind of strategy, why not now?



The blogger from Baghdad is still silent, last posting was 24 March. I hope he still lives.