Iraq Crisis: US, UK, NATO not returning to Iraq as there are no Weapons of Mass destruction and Saddam Hussein
Dispatch News Desk World Report
“We’re not going to allow ourselves to be dragged back into a situation in which, while we’re there we’re keeping a lid on things, and after enormous sacrifices by us, after we’re not there, people start acting in ways that are not conducive to the long-term stability and prosperity of the country,” said U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday while talking to US media from lush green South Lawn of the White House.
So it is clear U.S. will not take military action against ISIS as it has no Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The last U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in 2011 after more than eight years of its quest to find WMD.
Response of United Kingdom is not different than United States reference to Iraq crises as British Foreign Secretary William Hague confirmed to the media that the UK has no intention of sending troops into Iraq. “We left Iraq in the hands of elected Iraqi leaders with armed forces, with their own security forces, so it’s primarily for them to deal with”.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gave different statement than US and UK and his statement is deeply “diplomatic” rather philosophical. “The international community must imperatively deal with the situation,”
NATO secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen remarked that he “could not see NATO getting involved”.
The international response to the deteriorating state of Iraqi government is totally different than it was when Iraq was attacked to find WMD and removal of Saddam Hussian rule. Sice there is no Saddam Hussian and no WMD therefore there is no apparent need of responding the situation in Iraq.
Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki is seeking help from world and requested US to send military aid and carry out airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) rampage. Despite Maliki’s call, the aid never came and old friends US-UK and NATO are hesitant to return to Iraq.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov remarked that Russia was “greatly alarmed” by the events in Iraq but that they were a result of the “total failure of United States” in the region. “We warned long ago that the affair that the Americans and the Britons stirred up there wouldn’t end well,”.
Meanwhile, China that has its financial interests in Iraqi oilfields said that it was watching security developments in Iraq and offered the Baghdad government whatever help it can give. The Chinese foreign ministry issued a statement that said “We hope that Iraq can return to stability, safety, and normality as early as possible,”.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying indicated aid to Iraqi government but did not mention whether that aid could be military or merely humanitarian.
Iran has serious concern over the rise of Sunni jihadists who are supported by Saudi Arabia to install Purist Sunni Caliphate in the region. An Iranian senior official told an international news agency that Iran “may be willing to cooperate with Washington in helping Baghdad fight back. We can work with Americans to end the insurgency in the Middle East.”
