2008, ISBN: 9781234433925

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 70 pages. LC Number: KF27 . F64814 2008 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)225865966 Subject: National security -- Iraq. Excer… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 70 pages. LC Number: KF27 . F64814 2008 OCLC Number: (OCoLC)225865966 Subject: National security -- Iraq. Excerpt: . . . 12 6 Arab population ranging from quiet disdain to armed hostility. Today, Iraq is domi-nated by militias of every kind and its central government wallows in corruption. Khalid Jamal al-Qaisi, the deputy commander of one of the new, U. S. funded Sunni Arab militias in Baghdad proclaims, We are an independent state; no police 7 or army is allowed to come in. He and his contemporaries among the nearly 100, 000 Sunni Arab Insurgents now on the Army payroll refuse to cooperate with Iraqi Army and police, claiming with considerable justification that they too are in-filtrated by Shiite militias and riddled with sectarian bias. For these reasons, any elected official contemplating the commitment of U. S. Forces to the survival of a government like Iraqs, a government that already con-fronts powerful, armed opposition inside its own borders, should recognize the dam-age that reliance on U. S. troops does to the legitimacy of Iraqs government. For this reason, the best strategy for the United States is to stay out of Iraqs internal con-flict until the conflict is resolved and a new, legitimate Iraqi leadership emerges 8 without direct U. S. military support. This was the general strategy the United States followed in El Salvador, often cited as a case study in how the United States can defeat insurgencies. However, it was not the U. S. military that defeated the FMLN guerrillas, but the Salvadoran military under the control of its own government with U. S. encouragement and no more than fifty U. S. military advisors. Moreover, El Salvador was not simply a sov-ereign state, but El Salvadoran society was and is a single identity - an essential prerequisite for successful internal defense of a government struggling for survival and legitimacy. These points notwithstanding, there are other considerations that merit the com-mittees attention. Iraqs borders are . . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<