Saturday, June 25, 2011
Saved by the feud?
The withdrawal agreement that currently calls for all the US troops to be out of Iraq by the end of the year has a clause. This clause, which you can call the Imperial Clause, says that if the Iraqis ask us we can leave an Imperial outpost behind at the end of the year. The warmongers in the Pentagon have been pushing hard for the Iraqis to do just that. Sadly for them, the Iraqis are making that less and less likely by their internal politics.
Fifteen months after an election that was supposed to lay the groundwork for Iraq’s future, the government remains virtually paralyzed by a clash between the country’s two most powerful politicians, who refuse to speak to each other.Please guys, keep on a feudin' and a fussin'. If you can't agree, you can't ask us to leave an Imperial outpost and no more Americans will die in Iraq for Imperial Glory. Bless your greedy little hearts.
The paralysis is contributing to a rise in violence, and it is severely complicating negotiations on the most difficult and divisive question hanging over the country: Whether to ask the United States to keep a contingency force here after the scheduled withdrawal of American troops at the end of the year. The longer the deadlock persists, the harder it becomes for the American military to reverse or slow the withdrawal of the roughly 48,000 troops, the pace of which will pick up over the next few months.
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