Foreign Policy: Washington’s slow to respond to the offer “Daash” and ignored the pleas of Baghdad
Foreign Policy: Washington’s slow to respond to the offer “Daash” and ignored the pleas of Baghdad
01/26/2015 (00:01 pm)
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President Obama did not want to talk about Iraq during the State of the Union speech, but that the gains achieved by the organization “Daash” I did not leave him a choice. Since the Obama uses State of the Union speeches to boast that he accomplished the main promise he gave in his presidential campaign in 2008, which terminated the “dumb war,” he called through the return of all US troops home.
Although this is the first letter of the letters of State of the Union since he had to send thousands of American soldiers to Iraq to the fight against Daash, Fmasalt president’s message has not changed, which is that the war there is over and he will not launch a new war, where he said Tuesday evening, “instead of being drawn into a war other ground in the Middle East, we are a broad coalition of several countries, including Arab states money to weaken and then destroy this terrorist group. ”
The statement indicates that President Obama wants to keep some distance what is happening in Iraq and Syria, it is clear that there is a war ground raging in both countries, but the president’s view is that sufficient air strikes and the task of training can the United States avoid getting involved in a ground war long and bloody.
At the beginning of a speech Obama said that nearly 180 thousand fighters served in Iraq and Afghanistan six years ago, but he stressed that he had not left more than 15 thousand fighters only still were present at the two countries. Through an emphasis on the decline in the number of US troops in the region Obama concealed the fact that an increasing number of troops in Iraq over the past year.
At the same time, there are deputies from both the Republican and Democratic parties believe that Obama’s decision to withdraw US troops from Iraq in 2011 that allowed the emergence of “Daash.” With the continued US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan; some of the military are studying the possibility of keeping more troops in the country for a longer period to ensure security.
In his speech, the president acknowledged that the effort to destroy Daash may take a period of time but did not specify the period. In order to show the world that the United States “united in this task,” he said he would ask Congress to pass a draft resolution to authorize the use of force against this group.
For his part, White House says the president has the legal authority to take military action in Iraq, thanks to legislation that was passed in the wake of the atheist th September attacks, but that some of the critics of the powerful, including Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, insist on the need for a new authorization legislation covers various new task from what was originally envisaged.
After Obama’s speech via Caen pleased that the President has stated the need for a new legal mandate, but he was disappointed not to signal to the President that he would send a draft legislation for consideration by the Congress.
Kane said, “I hope that the draft will soon reach, because five months of the war is a long period and can not leave our fighters and their families are waiting for political consensus on the scope of the American mission”.
The US administration has been slow to respond to the offer “Daash”, and was ignoring the pleas of Baghdad was launched air strikes only in the month of August after the group took over parts of Iraq and Syria. And implemented the United States and coalition forces in 1821 strike, but Iraqi officials say the group needs to defeat the wild American troops on the ground to re-training of Iraqi forces in order to assist in the restoration of areas that lost control.
This raises the question thorny for Obama, who has always insisted on not return US troops to Iraq, even with the continued increase in the number of troops there are Matard.obdot US troops flocking to Iraq in June when sending 300 of them in the task of detecting the facts and assess the situation of the Iraqi security forces and the power of the ‘ Daash “, and since then, taking the number of US troops mounts today and according to the latest estimate of the US Department of Defense in 2338 there fighters in Iraq; 1538 of them in support of Iraqi forces, while 800 mission to protect individuals and American institutions there.
Since the start of air strikes in August and arrived in military operations against Daash costs to $ 1.2 billion, with an average daily cost of $ 8.2 million, according to the Pentagon. Although the task has become more ambitious over the past months, they look pale compared to the size of the US military presence in Iraq in 2007, when there were 158 thousand fighters on the ground, as they are relatively small when compared with the mission in Afghanistan, where there are still 10,600 fighters of the total force that number was 101 thousand, however, Obama did not want to re-American forces.
In a speech State of the Union last year, Obama addressed Americans, saying, “When I assumed the presidency, there were approximately 180 thousand Americans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, but today our troops out of Iraq”, but after just one year, this is no longer speak Hakiqia.ovi last year “We must move away from America’s permanent war”, but with the return of US troops to the same rules that left three years ago and with Pentagon officials say that will take years Daash defeat in Iraq and Syria, it appears that the United States is moving completely to a permanent war.
Those were not Obama’s message in the State of the Union this year. Before the speech, James Jeffrey, Obama’s ambassador said to Iraq from 2010 to 2012, “he melt any call to arms” .alnzer in letters case the previous Union reveals that the withdrawal of troops from Iraq was important for the president and its goals basic foreign policy, in a speech in 2012, Obama began his remarks by highlighting the visit to Andrew’s Air Force Base where he was welcomed the return of some returning from Iraq troops, and then said proudly, “for the first time in nine years, there is no American fighting in Iraq.”
The return of troops from Iraq is just part of Obama’s message that the United States was safer, he said, “Ending the Iraq war has allowed us to strike decisive guidance to our enemies, Venashto Qaeda became aware that the inevitable them from the United States from Pakistan to Yemen.”
In 2013 President referring to try the White House this year, did not even mention Iraq, the heart of the page on the war, which promised to end it, will not be in front of the option is to address the violence in Iraq – even as it reduced the risks of growing US presence in Iraq – tries where it became hard to describe the forces deployed there as a non-combat; In-Assad base US troops exposed to regular bombardment, but it is quite influential, mortars, at the same time Canadian special forces – sent in a similar training mission – exchanged fire with militants Daash week Almadi.ozkr Jeffrey said Obama prefers the analogy of war against Daash the assistance provided by the United States to combat terrorism in the southern Philippines, where local armed forces hold the lead and there is no significant risk of American casualties.
In September, Obama used a different analogy, he said the US counter-terrorism operations in Yemen and Somalia is considered a model for the strategy used in Iraq, which was seen by many observers as compared strange because of the continuing violence and unrest in both countries. Houthis have swept Tuesday presidential palace in Yemen and the Yemeni Minister of Information said that the whole coup and that the president does not have any control.
Jeffrey said he would like to be the head of a modern steel and honest with the American people about what is going to take action “to weaken and then destroy” Daash, adding that it does not require hundreds of thousands of troops, or more than a trillion dollars – that the United States poured in Iraq – but requires serious commitment and a willingness to take risks.
He said former US ambassador said that “foreign policy is not something that can be put on the backburner, and cursed Daash represents a significant threat to the global system.”
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