June 8, 2012United States takes the back seat of Iraq
Did not take the full share of media attention it deserves: In the middle of the current political crisis in Iraq, the current U.S. ambassador in Iraq, James Jeffrey - an American icon repeated in many conspiracy theories about American plans in the region - must have been infiltrated by the back door.
The Wall Street Journal conducted a dialogue with him regarding his past in Iraq, and in this week, and although the peak moves to topple Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has met with Ambassador Ibrahim al-Jaafari effective in the largest U.S. embassy in the world.
Waited, Was Vice President Joe Biden, Caesar Iraq in the Obama administration, which is supposed to appear in Baghdad this week?
Well, that's what I said rumors, but at the end of a week of work in Iraq and still do not see Joe Biden in Baghdad.
It seems that the Iraqis - without some kind of loud cheering from the Turks and the Iranians - will they do it by themselves?
Currently, Van Brett Makourk, the next U.S. ambassador in Iraq, was still in Washington rather answer questions about the crippled oil production, and insurgent groups, Sunni and Shia.
However, it is worth noting that the Makourk - which was strongly supportive of U.S. support for the owners so that the Iraqi Kurds announced that they could not do anything with him on the occasion of his nomination - was a pain to express an unbiased approach to Iraqi politics. If it came a new prime minister tomorrow, the Makourk will deal with him and deal with al-Maliki.
"The political agreements will be respected under the Constitution.
He Makourk even more than that.
The reverse also seems successes lobby Kurdish forces in the U.S. capital, and announced his desire to visit Kurdistan "in every week," If he took office (Congress passed today is already on his appointment in the Baghdad agreement of Democrats and Republicans on it), and the trip great for the goal of a top U.S. in Iraq!
Of course, the Ambassador Jeffrey needs to go around the first of June, when, as is supposed to have ended his tenure
And to happen as it should, the effect the center of all this may be that the United States will have only a limited role on the issue of whether Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will stay or leave.
Until now, it seems that there is quite a Kurdish struggle internally with some of the pressure on the Iranian Center President Jalal Talabani, is the key factor behind the delay in the start-confidence vote against Maliki in the Iraqi parliament.
Some will be considered without doubt to the U.S. unrestricted access as a desirable not to engage.
That would be a fair interpretation, which was not the case of the scene bright and very visible to the massive U.S. Embassy in Baghdad - the remnants of a different view of the involvement of the U.S. relationship with Iraq.
(Jeffrey and notes Lowell Street Journal story recall is expected to reduce the presence of U.S. intelligence the CIA in Iraq).
It would be fair that he was not also to the fact that the rest of the fingers of the United States in Iraq, it seems that it works the opposite.
At the embassy, as in the Senate in the U.S. Congress, are still debates about the Sunnis and the Shiites and the Kurds and the implementation of the Arbil.
A failure to realize the full conceptual model reiterates Iran's elemental Iraq - sectarian, and the result will serve to strengthen Iranian influence - or fragmentation of the country into spheres of influence, Iranian and Turkish.
One result of the recent developments in Iraq is that the pressure in the chest of Iraq, and put pressure on Maliki to repair relations with a number of other partners Shiites who worsened relations with them in recent years, such as ISCI, Badr, and virtue.
It also means the establishment of links with the bad episodes in a former militia thoracic League of the Righteous. All of which hurt the outcome in the hands of Iran.
On the contrary, there is one development may be a last resort that would strengthen the independence of Iraq in return for the regional ocean: the alliance between al-Maliki and the last year of the disputed territories in northern Iraq.
Typically, this orientation is very important for anyone who believes in an independent Iraq that was not mentioned in the hearing of the Senate when the U.S. was the debate on the appointment of the next U.S. ambassador in Iraq, which passed by Congress by filtration.
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