Iraq’s security forces need US military support
Iraq faces an existential crisis. Daesh (the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) controls almost a third of Iraq, and most of its Sunni population. When people ask me whether I think Iraq will break up in the future, I tell them that it already has. The question is whether the international community […]Norman Ricklefs writes for Gulf News:
Iraq faces an existential crisis. Daesh (the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) controls almost a third of Iraq, and most of its Sunni population. When people ask me whether I think Iraq will break up in the future, I tell them that it already has. The question is whether the international community is prepared to allow the status quo to remain or whether we intend to roll back the gains of Daesh. And if we intend to roll back those gains, what role should the US military play?
