Britse leger belangrijkste aanvallen de V.S. als `intellectueel failliet' over Irak

Peter Richards
Zaterdag 1 September, 2007
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Het vroegere hoofd van het Britse Leger heeft het naoorlogs beleid van de V.S. aangevallen, roepend het „doe failliet gaan intellectueel“. De algemene Heer Mike Jackson, die het leger tijdens de oorlog in Irak leidde, beschreven zoals „onzinnig“ de eis door de vroegere Secretaresse van de Defensie van de V.S. Donald Rumsfeld dat de krachten van de V.S. „geenbouwt“ doen. Hij heeft ook terug bij suggesties geraakt die de Britse krachten in Basra hadden ontbroken.

Mr Rumsfeld was “one of the most responsible for the current situation in Iraq,” Gen Jackson says in his autobiography, Soldier. He describes Washington’s approach to fighting global terrorism as “inadequate” for relying on military power over diplomacy and nation-building.

Last week General Jack Keane, a US commander just returned from Iraq, said the security situation in southern Iraq was “deteriorating” and there was “general disengagement” by the British military in Basra. But Gen Jackson told the Daily Telegraph, which is serialising his book: “I don’t think that’s a fair assessment.

“What has happened in the south, as in the rest of Iraq, was that primary responsibility for security would be handed to the Iraqis once the Iraqi authorities and the coalition were satisfied their training and development was appropriate.

“In the south we had responsibility for four provinces. Three of these have been handed over in accordance with that strategy.”

He is also critical of the decision to hand control of planning the administration of Iraq to the Pentagon, and said disbanding the Iraqi army and security forces had been “very short-sighted”.

The Pentagon said divergent views were a “hallmark of open, democratic societies”.

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