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US/IRAQ: Πίεση να κοπούν οι δαπάνες, πιέσεις «κύμα» στρατευμάτων

Πέμπτη, 8η Μαΐου 2008

surge.jpgΑπό Jim Lobe | Η αυξανόμενη ανυπομονησία στο συνέδριο πέρα από τις τεράστιες δαπάνες που βασανίζονται επάνω από τον πόλεμο του Ιράκ, καθώς επίσης και η πεποίθηση του Πενταγώνου ότι χρειάζεται περισσότερα στρατεύματα στο Αφγανιστάν για να παλεψει insurgents εκεί, βάζουν την εκθειασμένη επιτυχία του George W. Στρατηγική «κύματος» της διοίκησης των Μπους στη δοκιμή.

Αν και ο οίκος των αντιπροσώπων εμφανίζεται ισορροπημένος για να εγκρίνει μια πρόσθετη 163 Πέμπτη δισεκατομμύριο δολαρίων για τις στρατιωτικές διαδικασίες και στο Ιράκ και στο Αφγανιστάν μέσω του τέλους του έτους, οι περισσότεροι παρατηρητές θεωρούν ότι το συνέδριο θα επιβάλει τους πρωτοφανείς όρους στα Ιράκ-σχετικά έξοδα. Αυτό θα μπορούσε να περιλάβει τις απαιτήσεις ότι η ιρακινή κυβέρνηση του πρωθυπουργού Nouri Al-Maliki πληρώνει ουσιαστικά περισσότεροι στην αναδημιουργία και τις σχετικές δαπάνες από πρέπει να χρονολογήσει.

Το επιχείρημα ότι η Βαγδάτη πρέπει να αντέξει περισσότεροι του φορτίου κέρδισε την ορμή την προηγούμενη εβδομάδα όταν ανέφερε ο πρόσθετος επιθεωρητής του Πενταγώνου γενικός για την αναδημιουργία του Ιράκ ότι το εισόδημα πετρελαίου του Ιράκ το 2008 πρέπει να υπερβεί 70 δισεκατομμύριο δολάρια, δύο φορές τόσο πολύ όσο εήταν προβλεμμένων τους ακριβώς μερικούς μήνες πριν.

Εκείνη η έκθεση, που έρχεται ανάμεσα να αυξηθεί την ανησυχία εδώ σχετικά με την αδύνατη εσωτερική οικονομία, έχει τροφοδοτήσει τις προσπάθειες από μια δικομματική ομάδα γερουσιαστών για να σταματήσει ουσιαστικά όλες τις ΗΠΑ. χρηματοδότηση για σημαντικά έργα αναδημιουργίας και υποδομής στο Ιράκ.

Πράγματι, η Επιτροπή των Ένοπλων Δυνάμεων Συγκλήτου ψήφισε ομόφωνα την προηγούμενη εβδομάδα να εγκρίνει έναν λογαριασμό που θα απαγόρευε το Πεντάγωνο από τη χρηματοδότηση οποιουδήποτε έργου αναδημιουργίας ή υποδομής στο Ιράκ που κοστίζει περισσότερα από δύο εκατομμύριο δολάρια. Η παρόμοια νομοθεσία αναμένεται για να ληφθεί από τη Βουλή.

«Αυτό είναι η πρώτη σημαντική δικομματική αλλαγή στην πολιτική μας προς το Ιράκ,» δηλωμένο δημοκρατικό Sen. Susan Collins, ένας από τους χορηγούς της νομοθεσίας μετά από την της προηγούμενης εβδομάδας ψηφοφορία, ενώ ο πρόεδρος επιτροπών, Sen. Ο Carl Levin είπε η αποτυχία του Ιράκ να πληρώσει τις δαπάνες αναδημιουργίας ήταν «άδικη (και) ασυγχώρητη» δεδομένου του αναπάντεχου κέρδους έχει λάβει από τη ζαλίζοντας άνοδο στις τιμές του παγκόσμιου πετρελαίου.

Μια άλλη παροχή ίδιου λογαριασμού θα απαιτούσε την κυβέρνηση του Ιράκ για να πληρώσει τους μισθούς και τις δαπάνες κατάρτισης των κυρίως Sunni πολιτοφυλακών, ή το αποκαλούμενο «sahwa» ή τα «ξυπνώντας» συμβούλια, στους οποίους οι ΗΠΑ. έχει ξοδεψει κατά προσέγγιση 27 εκατομμύριο δολάρια μηνιαίως.

Παρά τις ΗΠΑ. pressure, the al-Maliki government has strongly resisted integrating the vast majority of the estimated 90,000 members of these militias — most of which were previously part of the Sunni insurgency — into the army or police for fear that they will eventually turn their guns on the regime.

The result has been growing frustration on the part of the militias, frustration that reportedly was significantly enhanced last month after al-Maliki enlisted thousands of members of the Badr Organisation into the government’s security forces during fighting with Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra and Sadr City in Baghdad. The Badr Organisation is the armed wing of the Shi’a Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the strongest party in the coalition.

Both the intra-Shi’a conflict between the Sadrists and the government and the growing anger of the sahwa militias — most recently dramatised by a series of strikes and public protests and by an increasing number of attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces in al-Anbar province and other Sunni strongholds where the militias have kept the peace for most of the past year — have resulted in a sharp rise in both Iraqi and U.S. casualties over the past two months, threatening the security gains made by the surge.

The surge, which was initiated in February 2007, was aimed at pacifying both al-Anbar province and the capital by adding some 30,000 U.S. troops to the 140,000 already deployed to Iraq to stop and reverse the drift to sectarian civil war between Sunnis and the various Shi’a militias. Its strategic aim was to foster a climate of peace and stability that would encourage all factions to make the political compromises necessary for national reconciliation.

While the surge made substantial headway in achieving its tactical goals of improving security — with the critical help of the sahwa militias which had mostly broken with al Qaeda in Iraq and allied themselves with the U.S. even before the surge got underway — its strategic goal of political reconciliation has been far more elusive.

Moreover, the surge’s tactical success has failed to translate into additional popular or Congressional support for the war at home. As a result, the Bush administration, which promised months ago to withdraw the 30,000 surge troops by the end of July, is adhering to its pledge, leaving fewer troops to ensure that a new round of violence does not break out.

At the same time, the Pentagon leadership is pressing the White House to continue the drawdown from Iraq beyond July so that it can deploy the three brigades — between 10,000 and 12,000 troops — it says it needs to cope with the Taliban and their allies in Afghanistan. While Bush has announced that there will be at least a 45-day pause to assess the impact of the surge withdrawal after July, the pressure on him to resume the process — not only from the Pentagon, but from Republican candidates in the November elections — is expected to be intense.

Republican backing for the Armed Services Committee bill banning additional spending on major reconstruction projects and support for the sahwa militias is clearly seen by both the administration and the promoters of the surge as a worrisome portent, and not only for maintaining the relative — albeit fragile — peace that has prevailed for much of the past year.

One of the surge’s architects, Frederick Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), said that legislation would “do catastrophic damage to our image in the world, particularly the Muslim world…The argument that Iraq should use its oil revenues to pay the United States sounds like the ultimate proof that we invaded Iraq for mercenary reasons.”

Ending U.S. funding for the sahwa militias, in particular, will pose a critical — and long overdue — test of the surge strategy, according to a number of observers, who see Maliki’s failure to integrate them as a critical stumbling block to national reconciliation.

“If the Awakenings are not integrated into the national security forces, then there is little hope for political accommodation or for lasting security and the U.S. is effectively trapped,” according to Marc Lynch, an expert at George Washington University whose blog, abuaardvark.com, is widely read here. “Since all other forms of persuasion seem to have failed, it’s time to give Maliki an ultimatum…If he gives in, then there may finally be some hope for political accommodation…”

“The downside is that if Maliki doesn’t go along…then things may well get ugly. But all signs suggests that they will get ugly anyway — and better that they get ugly while the U.S. is at the highest troop levels it will ever have,” Lynch wrote.

“If Maliki won’t do this now, when U.S. troop levels are high and security is relatively better, with the shadow of a new president who likely will not continue to offer an open-ended commitment, then he never will…and everyone should know this.”

*Jim Lobe’s blog on U.S. foreign policy, and particularly the neo-conservative influence in the Bush administration, can be read at http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/.

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