America is betting on the Iraqi army, "non-denominational" and Syrian fighters moderates to fight Daash

Sunday, 14 September / September 2014 14:58


Twilight News / Although the United States spend billions on rebuilding the Iraqi army, the failure of the latter in the face of the organization of the Islamic State (Daash) in June. But Washington did not lose determination, and will re-training of Iraqi forces and Syrian fighters to defeat the militants.

To avoid re-flooding the United States in the nightmare of American soldiers risk their lives in Iraq, wants President Barack Obama to provide the Iraqi government forces and the moderate Syrian opposition with weapons and advisers, to meet the Daash.

But risky bet. In Western capitals, apply doubts about the ability of Americans to provide trained Iraqi army in conjunction who did not equip himself with it until now, and avoid dropping into the trap, which accelerated the disintegration, any unfortunate tendency to act as a protector of the interests of the majority Shiite alone.

As in Syria, the issue is different, where opponents should be trained and thus bypassing the deep ideological differences that separate the different groups that make up the moderate opposition.

Although there are hundreds of opposition groups in Syria, rare ones that have combat experience and ideology of purely secular, or at least long enough for the hard-line dogma accepted by Westerners as a trusted partner.

And Obama's request of $ 500 million from Congress to train 5,000 fighters in the next 12 months, and preferred to resort to the special forces instead of customers and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Saudi Arabia and expressed their interest by agreeing to host the works of the training on its territory.

But the House of Representatives Americans want to draw the American strategy against Daash, also stresses the Senate to determine the government's moderate opponents, and this illusion for a number of experts, according to the report of the Agence France-Presse seen by "Twilight News".

Said Aaron Land, an official report written for the "crisis in Syria," published by the Carnegie Center for International Peace, based in the United States, that the debate is not being realistic.

He explained that the majority of the Syrian opposition opportunism or Islamist, to varying degrees.

But if Washington succeeds in forming the opposition force, with the support of well-trained air strikes, might be able to make rapid progress in the field.

Land and stressed that a small group with air support may be very effective. Thus, the first challenge will be to find these elements and ensure that they receive arms ending in the hands of anti-Western hardliners, such as organizing the Islamic state.

During the Vietnam War, the Americans failed attempts to form a professional armed forces, mainly, because the local leaders considered bodyguards of the empire rather than forces to protect the country.

This scenario repeated recently in Iraq, where Washington has spent 24 billion dollars to rebuild the army after the invasion of 2003 abandoned soldiers and officers from the allowances of military and weapons, and threw them on the side of the road in June in Mosul, after he began to panic from Daash.

Officials were quick to blame the politicians in it to former Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, and ruled out for the year of power facilities and even the army.

He retired American Gen. Paul Eaton, who was assigned the Pentagon reshape the Iraqi army fractured in 2003-2004 that the idea was to create an army reflects the composition of Iraqi society, "but this model collapsed when he took over the Iraqi leadership and began detailing its units to measure religious affiliations."

It is ironic that the organization Daash seized during the offensive in northern Iraq, crushing dozens of mechanisms and weapons provided by the Pentagon to the Iraqi army.

After the departure of al-Maliki, is betting on the Washington Haider Abadi to form an army represents Iraq.

He said Admiral John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman on Thursday that the difference is the presence of a new government, "has openly declared its intention to be more open and responsibility."


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