Text/Sima Nan
Can US troops in Iraq be withdrawn? I've been there for more than 20 years, what's the point?
According to a source in the Iraq security department on the 6th, the Iraq security delegation will go to the United States at the end of this month and announce the end of the presence of foreign forces in Iraq.
In fact, the international coalition dominated by United States has long existed in Iraq. There have been strong calls within Iraq for the US military to leave.
Recently, someone came out to refute the rumor, saying that a tube of laundry detergent as an excuse United States to invade Iraq is the biggest lie in the world, but as soon as he finished speaking, there was an uproar below.
In the year of China's SARS crisis, the United States invaded Iraq on the grounds that "Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction", ignoring the widespread opposition of the international community, brazenly invaded Iraq, and launched more than 20 years of military intervention. Far from bringing real peace to Iraq, the war has plunged the country into more protracted conflict and instability.
United States claims to have withdrawn its troops from Iraq in late 2011, leaving only a small number of troops at the United States Embassy in Iraq. However, after the extremist group "Islamic State" seized large areas of western and northern Iraq in 2014, the United States increased its troops again on the pretext of fighting extremism and formed an international coalition to unite many countries to carry out military operations in Iraq for nearly three years. Today, although the main body of extremist groups in Iraq and Syria has collapsed, the United States military presence in Iraq has become the main cause of instability in the country.
Iran people will not forget that it was on Iraq land that United States and Israel, using the most advanced weapons, killed the star general Soleimani by means of state terrorism.
Of course, laundry detergent is just an excuse, the elimination of anti-American regimes is the goal, and the war in Iraq cost $763 billion, is it worth it? Is it worth it with 5,000 United States GIs killed and 50,000 United States GIs killed or wounded?
Maintaining the hegemony of the United States is not consistent with the logic of doing business, and it is a loss-making deal in terms of the extremely expensive cost alone, but the eradication of the Isaddam regime has essentially maintained the hegemony of the dollar, and the use of a large number of United States latest weapons has once again explained that science and technology are an important pillar of the development of the modern military and military strength.
As for the principles of the UN Charter, they are not worth mentioning in the eyes of the United States, and as for the deaths of Iraq civilians who have suffered a large number of lives, there will be no slight tilt in the balance of conscience of the politicians who launched the war, and there is no authoritative data given by the United States officials on how many civilians have been killed in Iraq under the bombing of United States so far.
Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, in which the US-led coalition indiscriminately shot, detained, and tortured innocent civilians, indiscriminately bombed residential areas, and even used a large number of white phosphorus and depleted uranium shells. These actions have directly led to the death of a large number of civilians.
According to NGO statistics, since the outbreak of the war in Iraq, the number of civilian deaths in Iraq may exceed 209,000.
Imperialism kills people so brazenly in the world, and the public knows have summed up a rule, scaring the Chinese people every day with their findings: United States is too strong, we cannot mess with others. To be crispy and numb, to lower your eyebrows and pleasing to your eyes, to kneel down and surrender, to measure China's material resources to form the favor of friends and countries, to abandon industry 2025, to eat up state-owned enterprises, you can't say half a word about imperialism, "it's amazing my country" can not be mentioned again, even if you mention a very specific industrial achievements and development achievements, it is not allowed. Of course, patriotism cannot be mentioned, and if you mention patriotism, you are a patriotic thief......
In short, in the eyes of these well-known people, who are frightened by the menacing impositivity of the United States, it is not imperialism that threatens us, but we threaten imperialism. The modernization of the army's organizational form, military personnel, weapons and equipment, and the enhancement of the strategic ability to defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests will stimulate the nerves of the United States and should be included in the list of prohibitions. Recently, there have been more small essays and videos of this kind of argument, and new forces have joined the creators, no matter what face, what title, or what the origin is, all of them play up how powerful the US military is.
When the US military attacked Iraq 21 years ago, it was indeed powerful, and it was the US-British coalition army, which used the world's most advanced weapons, and when the well-known spokesman who was sifting into chaff was scaring the Chinese people, he forgot a question:
China is not Iraq.
Russia is not Iraq either.
The Russian-Ukrainian war has been fought for almost three years, and the funds of United States to support Ukraine are almost catching up with the total expenditure of Iraq, what is the result? This time, the United States mobilized dozens of countries to deliver weapons together, and the greatest achievement was that Ukraine mercenaries occupied 92 villages on the Kursk border.
(Before breakfast on September 8, 2024, written at No. 8 Nanluoguxiang, Dongcheng District, Beijing, I just returned from Japan Korea yesterday, I ate too much kimchi, and my stomach was a little uncomfortable)