Is the United States making a mistake by leaving Iraq to its own devices – and the tender mercies of neighboring countries like Iran? According to columnist Hamid Shehab of Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, America can stay engaged and help Iraq become an ‘arc of stability,’ or, ‘There will likely be more unhappy surprises putting the United States on the threshold of an era of fragmentation, disintegration and endemic crisis that will be difficult to overcome.’
For Kitabat, Hamid Shehab writes in part:
The United States is mistaken if it thinks that acting from a distance will shield it from surprise or unwanted reactions from interested parties who share its influence. The U.S. can’t rely on power sharing scenarios or the empowerment of one party over another while Iraqis languish with the destruction, pain, division and chaos that American policy has thrust on the country.
The struggles and rivalries among political blocs, the absence of an American role, and the meddling in Iraq by other countries in the region send a strong signal that the expected surprises will be greater than America’s capacity to address them and stop the Iraqi damn from collapsing.
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