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After the Iraq war .. Washington announces end military interventions
Date: Monday 20/02/2012 10:55
More: New York Times
over the twenty years we have lived amid the bustle and noise of war and angry debate about how to heat up. Heavy clashes in the nineties on "humanitarian intervention" gave way to the battles of "regime change" and "promote democracy" after the events of atheist th of September,
And then the debate about "counterinsurgency strategy" - a new battle to win hearts and minds.
argument that foreign policy is often a kind of ideological conflict cockerel. Day, although we did not realize it yet, that era is coming to an end. To prove this, there is no need to look beyond the document "Strategic Guide" new for the Pentagon issued last month on the morning of Mr. Obama's pledge to cut $ 485 billion from the defense budget over the next decade. It repeated many of the core objectives of the strategy the latest American National Security: defeat al Qaeda, deter enemies traditional, face the threat of unconventional weapons. Remember, too, but "after the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States will focus on non-military means and cooperation between the armies to face the instability and reduce the demand for the obligations of American power in the imposition of stability." And continues by saying that "U.S. forces will be further developed and amplified in order to carry out the stability of the imposition of a large scale." This section marks the end of the military planners suddenly and rapidly to the era of intervention to resolve after the events of atheist th of September. A few years ago, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - wars of invasion and nation building and fight the insurgency - are similar in form to modern war, but now it is no longer so, Valamirkan do not believe in this day and can no longer funded. Strategic Guide includes a new note again: While U.S. forces continue to perpetuate their presence in the Middle East, it was stated planners, "we will have to restore balance to the Asia - Pacific region." This is a symbol of the term "China will deal" that the Obama administration considers a replacement for a future major al-Qaeda as a threat to U.S. national security. When we say that it is not just an allegation that one of the areas take precedence over others, but intended that the threat of conventional expansion of the state has replaced the individual threat that emerged after the events of September. And, of course, the global problems, such as climate change and infectious diseases and the spread of nuclear weapons and terrorism, still exists and is not over. But in matters of war and peace, we seem to go back to the world we know well, maneuvering in which the great powers in order to achieve benefits.
We have left that world behind us, or our perception, with the end of the Cold War, which stripped America of its traditional enemy, and raised the question about whether or when the Americans resort to force. The answer to that came in the mid-nineties, when I felt the Clinton administration Badtararha to respond to the political chaos in Haiti, and violence in the Balkans. Could have been the use of force in pursuit of justice. During the election campaign of 2000, George W. Bush vowed to put an end to those efforts and focus instead on the relations of great powers. But the events of atheist th September had turned those plans upside down. In fact, the National Security Strategy of the Bush administration in 2002 claimed that "the threat of invading countries to the United States has shrunk." That Mr. Bush may incorporate the use of force to the principle of waiver, insisting that America "must defend liberty and justice for the correct principles and they apply to people anywhere in the world." That was the words of the war. Debate over the war in Iraq has revived many of the arguments that go back to the old Clinton era. Joined the Liberals researchers for the common interest of the likes of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the neo-conservative Americans from the likes of William Kristol and Robert Kagan in urging the use of force for political change, transition, while cautious "realists" on the left and right of the risk adventures that merciless .
Iraq has signed and the United States also, during the year 2008, the Framework Agreement strategy to support the ministries and agencies of Iraq in the transition from the strategic partnership with the Republic of Iraq to the areas of economic, diplomatic, cultural and security, based on reducing the number of PRTs in the provinces, as well as providing important sustainable rule of law development program including the police and the completion of the coordination, supervision and report to the Fund for Iraq relief and reconstruction.
n Abdalkhalq Ali translation
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