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U.S. researcher: Washington supports Maliki to maintain "stability" of the Iraqi leader Stqodah lust for absolute power
Posted 17/02/2012 01:03 PM
Washington - "squares of liberation"
U.S. policy focuses on maintaining the status quo in Iraq, and to provide unconditional support for Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as to maintain stability. But the status quo is inherently unstable. The feel-Maliki, according to a U.S. researcher, encouraged by this support, that the restrictions on his actions are few and not only has little incentive to make concessions.
About power and the glory of their desire
Said Marissa Sullivan, deputy director of the "Institute of the U.S. War," in an article published in the newspaper "New York Times" recently said, "Iraqi Prime Minister imposes increasingly control over the security institutions and intelligence in Iraq, and endeavored to keep his political opponents also sought to split their ranks. So he used in the current political crisis, questionable tactics and even unconstitutional to remove competitors without diminishing U.S. support provided to him. "
She added that the Maliki government "committed at the same time, human rights abuses in its crackdown on political opposition in Iraq. While you may feel America is that al-Maliki provides the best chance of stability, the strengthening of his authority may make Iraq unstable, as long as the factions opposing the Iraq seeks to find ways another to rein in al-Maliki - either through policy or through violent force in the end. "
And considered the researcher that "the United States means less of an impact on the situation in Iraq, which was the case in the past, given the loss of influence resulting from the single-minded focus by Washington on the disengagement and withdrawal from that country. However, the United States should not be exacerbate the underlying motives behind the lack of stability constant support and unconditional Maliki government. "
And suggested that Sullivan "the necessity of U.S. pressure on all political groups to work toward political accommodation is a real where everyone through the sharing of power meaningful. Should focus U.S. policy over the next year to make the relationship with al-Maliki conditioned more by linking the continued support of his progress in the a number of fronts, including the implementation of a real sharing of power, and to refrain from politicizing the Iraqi security forces, and a willingness to maintain the rule of law. and policymakers must also demand that the Americans, the Iraqi government to respect human rights. "
Previously, Sullivan suggested in a study on the current crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other political parties, and published in the site Institute of hostilities, that is the demobilization of the Baghdad Brigade and other units is constitutional and related directly to the Prime Minister's Office, and the integration of officers, Sunnis and Kurds in the security forces and intelligence and build confidence through the release of detainees in mass arrests, and to provide assurances that the Prime Minister to issue or enforce arrest warrants against his opponents. , However at the end of the study that there is no reason to believe that al-Maliki would agree to such steps as were not able to rally opposition to itself in order to censure him when necessary.
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