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Loves officials in Washington to pretend that the neo-conservative leadership of the war on Iraq, and the application surge plan ensured victory and not rather face triple failure multi-faceted. But news of the deal the new Iraqi armament with Moscow highlighted the scope of the disaster of American policy, and analyzes the former intelligence officer American CIA and the current observer of events Paul Piller this development.
To return to the fifties and sixties, was selling basic gear means that were used by the Soviet Union, and most Alvatta to consider in the Middle East, to devote influence and close ties with other systems.
Such sales provided significant benefits for the Soviet military industry. In addition to such buyers like Musrusoah, Iraq has become the main customer after the 1958 coup led by Abdul Karim Qasim, who ended the Iraqi monarchy. And raise the denominator prohibition of the Iraqi Communist Party, and it was a end to Iraqi security links with the West, which was kept a seat in the Baghdad Pact, and went to the Soviet Union as the main champion of security and his arms supplier. Qasim lost his power and his life when write him to the Baath coup in 1963. The United States good information about the coup plot and has certainly smiled, away from the concern to increase the influence of the Communist under Qasim. And passed many years of instability and regulations short-term in Iraq after that until the resumption of the Baath Party to gain power under Saddam Hussein's regime and it established his dictatorship .. and sold the Soviets quite a lot of weapons to Iraq under the Baath, regardless of what U.S. officials يأملونه in 1958. He stopped the Russian arms market in Iraq when the United States invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam. But the current Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has now concluded an agreement to buy Russian arms estimated at more than four billion and two hundred million dollars, according to a joint statement issued after talks between Prime Minister Maliki and Russian Dmitry Mdafiyev.
Deal includes attack helicopters and anti-missile systems to the atmosphere. Added there are many discussions on the way between Russia and Iraq aims to further arms sales, which include fighter MiG-29, and more helicopters and other heavy weapons. The Russians today, such as the Soviets yesterday to Aabdon they feel no compunction, which encases sometimes tells Americans in arms exports, including to Iraq, about the human rights record of the party who is selling his or other political conditions in those countries that buy arms. And not far from the question for Russia to replace the United States in the foreseeable future as the largest equipped weapon to Iraq. And we can draw several implications of this news. And one of them is that the picture is filled with any legacy left in Iraq of U.S. war that brought down Saddam. The system that emerged from the rubble, not increasingly authoritarian and sectarian narrow and not a friend friendly to Iran only; but it also becomes an agent for Russia. He future Tri failure. The second lesson that concerns the idea of providing military support to the new system in the foundation is essential in order to build a good relationship with him and to be considered as a friend rather than a foe another as soon as the system controls the power. This idea may have heard increasingly as an argument to do more to help the rebels in Syria.
We need to get a foothold with the new group and accept the risks and allocate key resources, have been told that in order to be taken Balasthan whatever system which arises from the rubble. But the United States has set up more than a toehold for several times in Iraq - with the Baathists in 1958 and with the successors of Saddam after he was removed. In the latter case it did so with spending enormous resources. Look no amount of friendship and influence got it.
Finally, the fact that the recent Iraq gesture reminiscent of what happened at the end of the fifties in the Middle East was that the index time in the Middle East to Aichir much to one direction as many like to think so. The evolution of events there, even with pay or led by the United States, to necessarily Aaijeri in the direction of greater political freedom, or more free enterprise, or any of that.
It may be to think that we can get help from the monotheistic religions of the Middle East, but instead of South Asian religions religions - which envisions the wheel of life and that we keep our rotation and rotation. Buddhist doctrine will say he can sensation down from the cupboard, but only through self-enlightenment and not pay anyone else. And it seems that Thomas Friedman wants to say in his column on Wednesday when he wrote: "put the Middle East only a smile on your face when change beginning with them, in other words Almushargiwn, not us." Thanks for that and next time if one of them talked about how the Middle East will be more pleasing to us whether the United States more inclined to aver there.
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