If the United States wants its embassy in Baghdad to be respected as sovereign American territory, then it ought to have respected Iraq as sovereign Iraqi territory in 2003, and it ought to do so now.
Only Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party prevented the Iranian-allied Iraq that the Shia majority there would favour, although, like Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party, that would not in principle be a problem for the United States, or indeed for the United Kingdom.
Donald Trump promised to bring the troops home. If he did, then nobody in Iraq or Iran could bomb them. Or would have any wish to do so. The trick is stay out of these things in the first place.
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Iraqis are rising up against US neocolonialism in their country. The US bombed Iraq, massacring 25 fighters who have led the fight against ISIS. So Iraqis responded by attacking the US embassy. The US took over Venezuela's sovereign embassy. Now it got a taste of its own medicine.
ReplyDeleteThey should just pull out. As Trump said that they would.
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