While going through ‘Exit strategy‘on ‘Washingtonpost’ by Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks, wherein they have mentioned that the US troop withdrawal from Iraq will destabilize or may divide the country, well, very much true, but the duo forgot to mention that the chaos will spread in the whole Mideast thus disturbing the political balance in the region.
Amid the surmounting violence and predicament that spills over Iraqi future have forced diplomats world over to contemplate that where, after all, US-Iraq policy is heading towards. With this, the dilemma also prevails over the aftermath - in case US plans a sudden withdrawal. Nevertheless, abrupt troop withdrawal from Iraq will have long lasting repercussions and may woefully segregate the country.
Some of the trepidations that Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks feel are mentioned hereunder:
1) Shiite Iran together with Shiites Iraq would dominate, as the sect has 60% population in Iraq only and they will push Sunnis out of ethnic Anbar province.
2) Shiite groups will fight among themselves in Southern Iraq thus paving the way for the civil war.
3) Kurds in North will segregate from Iraq while strengthening the borders and may call in US troops for security.
4) Withdrawal would mean to leave Iraq to terrorists. It’ll lead mass killing to an abhorsome extent and al-Qaeda will find another safe heaven for the one they lost in Afghanistan.
May be these are merely fears but still can’t be ruled out and I do agree that hazards to relinquish Iraq at present are imminent despite the fact that Iraqis, US army and its civilians are fed up of the hubbub. What I think is - it’s time for UN to play a wider role. It is possible that if UN forces will take over US in Iraq, the insurgent groups (al- Qaeda in particular) will endorse latter against former and United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) should be implemented instead of US soldiers hunting the terrorists that they will never successfully accomplish.
