Defense News: The United States uses the strategic partnership as a pretext for its continued presence in Iraq
Information/translation… A report by the American newspaper Defense News, which specializes in military affairs, revealed on Tuesday that the United States views the strategic security partnership as a pretext for its continued presence in the country.
The report, translated by the Maalouma Agency, stated, “The principle of strategic empathy promoted by retired general and former White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster shows how the American-Iraqi partnership can overcome the difficulties of competition. The United States must look at Baghdad’s diplomacy from the perspective of “Through the lens of the geopolitics of Iraq, especially in this kind of high-stakes competition that’s taking place across the Middle East.”
He added, “Accordingly, strategic investments in the US-Iraqi counter-terrorism partnership must continue despite any setbacks. Among the many trends affecting stability and security in Iraq, it is important not to overlook the Iraqi counter-terrorism apparatus, because maintaining “Continued support for the Counter-Terrorism Service is critical to U.S.-Iraq relations.”
He continued, “The Counter-Terrorism Service is an organization created and supported by the United States and must remain a permanent strategic partner. However, Iraq will need to protect its counter-terrorism structure against unjustified interference.”
He noted, “Iraq’s importance, even if it is uncomfortably confined between warring countries, has the long-term potential to bring much-needed stability to a region that needs it, and it is possible to exploit this partnership as a long-term pretext to be there to protect Israel.”
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