Now that the US has finally withdrawn its forces from Iraq, we are supposed to believe that the war there has ended successfully, that dictatorship has ended as has the so-called insurgency, and all is sweetness and light.
What a load of old tosh. As was always going to be the case, all that has happened is that the western powers who moved in have now decided that they've spent enough and there is no more real benefit to be gained, for themselves, by staying there. The final exit of the American forces has simply opened the door for more violence and, ultimately, a new dictatorship. Today it's been a spate of bombings with many killed and injured; tomorrow it could well be all-out civil war.
The interevention in Iraq was wrong, as has been the intervention in Afghanistan. Neither will result in any long-term improvements for the peoples of these benighted countries. Most worrying, however, is wondering where the US, Britain and a few others, will now be looking for the training of their forces; Syria must be the favourite, but will prove yet another disaster. Not that our politicians will worry about that.
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