US-Occupied Iraq: 'Factions' Only a Problem When We're Here
Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani asserts that Iraqi factions can only be disarmed once the US military pack their bags. This isn't some groundbreaking revelation, but a plain reading of cause and effect that Washington seems allergic to. It's a bit like complaining about your house being messy while still actively throwing garbage everywhere. The US insists on maintaining a 'counter-terrorism'
presence post-invasion, a presence that itself becomes a rallying cry for the very groups it claims to fight. Perhaps the US can explain why, twenty years after a 'liberation' based on weapons that didn't exist, they still need to 'stabilize' a nation they destabilized? History shows us when foreign boots hit the ground, resistance inevitably follows. To pretend these 'factions' are an independent
phenomenon, rather than a predictable response to occupation, is willful blindness—or, more accurately, a convenient excuse to stay.