Iraq has a "confused partner in the United States right now"

By GottaLaff

(Photo: The U.S. Army)

My talented pal Allen McDuffee has an interesting piece over at Truthout. Here are a few excerpts about something we don't hear much about because, you know, Tiger is "real" news, and information about the evolution of Iraq just gets in the way:

"If I had one word to describe Iraq, I would just use the word 'complicated.' If I had two words to describe Iraq, they would be 'very complicated,'" said Qubad Talabani, the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq to the United States . [...]

These circumstances are further complicated, according to Talabani, because Iraq has a "confused partner in the United States right now. A partner that has from 2003 up until now been heavily engaged in every aspect of political and military development of the country and a partner that is going through its own transition right now." [...]

Talabani also pointed to a "'culture of insecurity' that has been bred throughout Iraq - because of its history, because of its present, because of its geographic location, because of its partners - that makes reaching political agreements on key outstanding issues" an extremely difficult enterprise and that insecurity is "at the heart of every political impasse right now."

It's not a long piece, so please go read the rest here.

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