By Struan Stevenson, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Will Washington make the same mistake on Iraq twice?
We tried to evade it, and pretend the crisis is over or never really existed. But as John Adams said: “Facts are stubborn things.”
We tried to evade it, and pretend the crisis is over or never really existed. But as John Adams said: “Facts are stubborn things.”
Iraq, a war-torn country that preoccupied all of our minds throughout the first decade of the 21st century, but that we tried to forget in the last few years, is now at a serious turning point and with it the West is once again at a major geopolitical crossroad.
While the world was focusing on some other troubled areas, residents of six Sunni provinces of Iraq staged sit-ins in December 2012 to protest widespread repression and executions by the government of Nouri al-Maliki. The Shiite prime minister completely reneged on all of his commitments and agreements after assuming the U.S.-brokered premiership in 2010, thus fueling sectarian strife by purging and marginalizing Sunnis and Kurds.
The abuse of human rights and women’s rights became rampant (Iraq has the third-highest number of executions in the world). Corruption was commonplace, sectarian violence a daily staple.
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