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The role of the United States in the formulation of events in Iraq has become limited
Date: Saturday 22/12/2012 08:29 pm
U.S. influence declining in Iraq after troops leave Baghdad - WASHINGTON - When I arrived a group of Americans and their guards heavily armed to the Turkish Embassy to attend the ceremony in the month of September objected Iraqi policemen stationed in front of the embassy on their way. insisted police to hand over U.S. weapons carried by the guards, according of policy in the protection of embassies or return delegation of U.S. diplomats inserted without allowing them to attend. sources say they attended among guests at the ceremony that day, that the subsequent events is not fully clear. The bullet was fired at least one is likely to be a warning by the police. The Americans returned to their cars and disappeared in the darkness of night. After all the violence and bombings in the last ten years have passed this confrontation without stopping then one. But it is an example of the way they saw the United States reverse its influence in Iraq. Year after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and U.S. officials almost cars disappear from the streets of Baghdad. And when it comes out Americans compound embassy-like castle it is clear they are no longer the country's rulers as they were in the previous period. Many of them confined in their dealings to contact the Americans and prefer to move air in the skies of Baghdad instead of using cars through the streets of Baghdad as they eschew increasingly Contact Government Nouri al-Maliki. U.S. official told Reuters he did not leave the compound for nearly three years, only to return to the United States to spend their vacations. Asked Iraqi official on cooperation between the Iraqi and U.S. sides said amusingly «Americans? I'd like to see some of them. »In Washington and other Western capitals is increasingly a concern, fearing that failure to negotiate a permanent presence of U.S. troops to be excluded from the scene completely. To make matters worse they are concerned about the increasing convergence between the Maliki government and Tehran discount president to Washington in the region. Washington says that the relationship between the two sides are still close. In the sixth of December he met U.S. and Iraqi officials in Baghdad in the latest meeting to discuss military cooperation and arms sales and regional crises such as Syria. But it is clear that tensions list. U.S. official told Reuters «Iran's influence? Definitely yes. Can we influence? Definitely yes. »The« But the Iraqis are the first to say that they take care of their interests. »Was supposed to be the American embassy built on a vast area as it the largest in the world and equivalent size space Vatican almost built at a cost about $ 750 million a symbol of the presence of his permanence. Instead it has become a symbol of how exaggeration and Washington to assess its influence in the post-war period. Said one Arab diplomat in Baghdad «certain that Western governments have lost weight. There is no forces has ended its war here. The only reason for staying here is the desire to conclude contracts and because they want the oil contracts. But even in this area finalized special treatment. »Despite all the rumors about the benefit U.S. oil companies from the invasion of Iraq has put a nearly U.S. freezes completely. I went privileges for Chinese companies and others despite the fact that Exxon particular continues to strengthen its operations in the sector Kurdish in the north. Says Stephen Biddle professor of political relations and international affairs at George Washington University and a former adviser to generals, the U.S. military in Iraq «It is clear that al-Maliki has priorities greater than its relations with United States. Obviously, we pressed on Maliki to prevent aircraft crossing the (Iranian) and rejected. »Some fear in Washington that goes Maliki largely to the exclusion of the rest of the ingredients in Iraq, especially after the disease by President Jalal Talabani and his abroad for treatment. However, what may force the United States to accept it is that its role in the formulation of events may now be limited. said David Mack, a former State Department official who served as a diplomat in Iraq for years «We had never been in Iraq influence that was our friends believe that we or what was your opponents accuse him.» The «some Americans showed arrogance of imperialism ... In fact, Iraq was not us never to lose.
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