Wall Street Journal: the Trump must stop the influence of Iran and al-Maliki in Iraq and help the year for self-rule

Wall Street Journal: the Trump must stop the influence of Iran and al-Maliki in Iraq and help the year for self-rule



Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 21:31 GMT

The Wall Street Journal referred to the US American withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 during the era of former US President Barack Obama, adding that Iraq has begun to recover, and it behooves the US president Donald Trump his support.

The newspaper has published an article writer Paul Bartel in which he referred to the visit of the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis to Iraq, he said the US official went on to reassure Iraqis that the United States is not about to grab their oil.

The writer mentioned the heavy US military cooperation between the United States and Iraq in the face of the organization of the Islamic state in the battle aimed at restoring control over the city of Mosul. He said he should not be president of Trump and his advisers minimize the importance of Iraq.

He added that one of the biggest challenges Iraq's sectarian Sunni-Shiite divide, while the country represents the world's fastest-growing economies in 2009 while Iraq was an ally of Washington and lives in peace with its neighbors.

The writer mentioned that President Obama was the abandonment of Iraq in 2011 on the military and diplomatic levels, and said it behooves the administration Trump to understand what actually happened since the US Ambassador Ryan Crocker left Baghdad in 2009.

He said that the chauvinism that characterized the former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki paved the way for the emergence and rise of the organization of the Islamic state, and that Maliki's tendencies toward corruption and despotism led to the weakness of the Iraqi army's ability and the ability of the country's economy to resist the rebel threats.

He pointed out that the rise of state regulation led to inflict terrible Iraq damage and to derail the revolution in Syria, and here are the American soldiers fighting in Iraq and Syria as well, after the exposure of millions of killing, displacement and after wiping elements that priceless cultural heritage of mankind, and after that became Russia's military base in the Mediterranean.

He started that Iraq is recovering again, and that it behooves team President Trump work to support the recovery of its economy, and added that despite the provocations and the circumstances in Iraq, the time of the late President Saddam Hussein and in spite of the invasion and rule of sectarian bad practiced by al-Maliki conditions and in spite of the rise of state regulation in Iraq, the Iraqis did not lapse deeper to practice violence on a large scale.

He said that the leadership of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi express tolerance in the country, and he is working to defeat the state regulation and the expulsion of corrupt officials remaining from the reign of al-Maliki and stop the Iranian and Turkish country's intervention, it behooves President Trump managed to help him to succeed in his endeavors.

He called the writer Trump management to encourage Iraqis to buy American weapons, and work to stop Iranian influence and the influence of al-Maliki in Iraq and to the activation of the 2005 constitution, which could be a year of self-government even more.

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