"In 2003, Britain and the United States invaded Iraq, just for the game of power struggle? 》
In 2003, the Anglo-American coalition, like bulls breaking into a porcelain shop, recklessly and recklessly launched the Iraq War. At the end of the year, they succeeded in seizing former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but ignored the real intentions of Iraq's political reconstruction.
Iraq is a country with many traditional ethnic and sectarian contradictions, and the country's ruling power is weak. After Saddam Hussein came to power, he suppressed various domestic contradictions through power and worked hard to promote Iraq from a tribal geographical concept to an Iraqi national concept. However, the Anglo-American intervention made the country even more chaotic.
The United States has its own design for political reconstruction. The first is decentralized democracy, which takes into account various sectarian and ethnic factors such as Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds. However, this decentralization has had no real effect and has exacerbated divisions between ethnic groups. Former Iraqi Vice President Hashemi, who fled abroad under Sunni oppression, is one example.
Through the arrangement of the United States, Iraq's three real power positions: president, prime minister, and speaker of parliament were divided among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis, which undoubtedly deepened the contradictions between the three ethnic groups. The implementation of American-style democracy in Iraq has enabled Shiites to permanently control Iraq's political power by virtue of the absolute superiority of the population, and the living space of Sunnis has been continuously compressed.
With the support of the United States, the independence of the Kurds gradually became clear, and they lived their own small life with the abundant oil resources in their territory. They formed an independent political entity and were increasingly cut off from Iraq.
Was the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq just a game of power struggle? The Iraqi people and the entire Middle East region are experiencing intense turmoil in the struggle for power. The war has made life more difficult for Iraqis and has threatened the stability of the entire region. We need to rethink: Can true democracy emerge from such intervention? Can the power game bring happiness and stability to the people?
The above are some of my thoughts on the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its political reconstruction. I hope to arouse more people's attention and thinking about this incident.
