Of course the stitching was already coming loose on the Iraqi government long before the US military pullout, but many who were led to believe the US was leaving a “stable” nation are surprised now to find that the Maliki regime’s strategy of fear and mass arrests isn’t holding, and the government looks on the verge of unraveling outright.
In the few weeks since the US pullout, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has attempted to arrest his Vice President, ousted his Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, arrested over a thousand top political rivals on charges of “terrorism” and seen both the Sunni Arab and Kurdish blocs withdraw from his government.
It seems a virtual certainty that a parliamentary vote of no confidence is going to happen sooner or later (and indeed boycotts by Iraqiya MPs are probably the only reason this hasn’t happened yet), but this threatens to seriously test Iraq’s democratic bonafides, with many analysts seeing a very real possibility that Maliki will simply refuse to step down and use his control over the military to maintain his rule indefinitely.
I guess they're technically gone but after all they're not really gone, they're just over the border in Kuwait.
This should be a surprise to no one. All the signs of this were apparent over a year ago. I guess this is how the US avoids having an Iranian-centric government not kowtowing to the US…allow the government to devolve into chaos and dictatorship and then supply the cabal with the weapons to remain in power. It's the American way…
This was the logical outcome from day one. It's one of the reasons why there was no reason to have invaded let alone staying there. I agree with you that this was their goal from day one. I would also suggest that this is our foreign policy for the entire region. Havoc, chaos and confusion leads to weak nations. Weak nations pose no real threat to us or Israel. Sure they will have to put up with the constant threat of terrorism, but it's not like the government doesn't get something from that. They get the people looking to them for protection. This of course is what the entire war on terror is about. We keep nations weak, keep the bucks rolling into the MIC and drive the sheeple farther and farther into the hands of the State.
“Maliki will simply refuse to step down and use his control over the military to maintain his rule indefinitely.”
So be if, for if the voting majority in Iraq, the 51% most educated and wealthy with a monopoly on the voting process in Iraq, if they have such a take all you can take morality as to destroy their own society, then may such corruption reach its ultimate conclusion.
For our 51% most weathy are more corrupt then theirs, for two corruptions do not equal a good.
So, if the amerikans keep their troops in Iran, Iran won't come apart?