U.S. study: Washington end the “strategic neglect” of Iraq and rescued from the Civil War

U.S. study: Washington end the “strategic neglect” of Iraq and rescued from the Civil War

03/08/2013 (00:01 pm)

BAGHDAD / Press-term

Warned the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the U.S. Obama administration to continue to “strategic ignore” the Iraqi crisis, will have major negative repercussions on the U.S. influence in the Middle East.
The center said in a study entitled “Iraq: turning new strategy in the Middle East”, “The negligence of the United States to Iraq, caused by fatigue of the Iraq war that I’ve earned the latter tactically, but lost on the level strategic. May also be the reason is the fact that the civil war Syria more violent, and produces severe human suffering, which is of concern to the international media. ”
But the study cautions that Iraq is strategically far more important than Syria. It is a country of 32 million, while Syria’s 22 million population. And that Iraq’s largest economy, where the gross domestic product in 2011 reached about $ 156 billion, compared with 107 billion to Syria. Most importantly, the reserves of Iraq’s oil has (9% of world reserves), which do not possess Syria only (0.2% of world reserves.)
and above this and that, added to the report, Iraq’s significant impact on the security overall in the Gulf region, which Playing for more than 60 years the role of the separation strategic – geographical between the areas of the Levant and the Gulf, and also between Iran and the Middle East.
For all these reasons, PCHR calls on Washington to intervene to stop the decline of Iraq into civil war, and to maintain a reasonable distance between him and Iran. He adds that this option is “win much” to the United States in the long term, even in the short term, the likelihood of having to replace neglected strategic for Iraq to “patience strategic.”
This comes at a time revealed the United Nations that the outcome of violence in Iraq has reached 3383 people dead and wounded during the the month of July, as pointed out that this outcome is the deadliest in the country since more than five years.
said Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Gyorgy Posten, in a statement received (range Press) a copy of it on Thursday, “The 1057 Iraqi were killed and 2326 injured during acts of terrorism and violence in the month of July, “noting that” the civilian death toll reached 928 and injured 2109, while killing 129 component security and injured more than 217 others. ”
explained Posten “still effects of terrorism on civilians at a high rate,” pointing to “The arrival of the civilian death toll to 4.137 and wounding more than 9.865 since the beginning of 2013.”
He Posten that “the country has not seen such numbers high five years ago, when it may cause agitation blind to the conflict sectarian wounds deep in this country before his cool in the end” , calling for “political leaders in Iraq to take immediate action and decisive action to stop the bleeding, and prevent the return of those dark days again.”
She drew the United Nations that “Baghdad was the most affected of the provinces in the outcome of the month of July the occurrence of 957 dead and wounded civilians , of whom 238 people dead and 719 injured, followed by the province of Salahuddin, Nineveh and Diyala, Kirkuk and Anbar, where was the number of victims in the hundreds, followed by the provinces of Babil, Basra, Wasit, adding up the number of victims to dozens. ”
It is noteworthy that the incidence of violence in Baghdad has seen since, beginning last February, rise steadily. According to the United Nations Mission in Iraq, last June, that the month of May, was the deadliest after the killing and injury of 3442 Iraqi operations violence in different parts of the country, and confirmed that it “very sad” to such a large number, called upon the Iraqi political leaders to “act “urgently” stop the bleeding unbearable “, while Baghdad has seen, in the 24 of last June, killing and wounding 188 people, a series of explosions hit different areas of the capital.

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