“THE GATES OF BABYLON”

Will the Americans also withdraw from Iraq? The fear that haunts Iraqi collaborators seems founded

By Dany Smith

Although the White House and its officials try to show that the US has not lost credibility after what happened in Afghanistan, the images that were turned around the globe in just minutes showing how the Air Force planes fled while hundreds of collaborators tried hang from their fuselages, few are who accept that point of view.

The column that supports the American story tries to support the idea that the departure of its troops is a guarantee of instability when in reality it has been the opposite, unless the Americans try to change the negative meaning of actions such as aggression, invasion and occupation. To pretend that would mean changing the very epistemology of each of those words, which in itself is foolish.

Articles and reports from Anglo-American media and sites in the past week seem to reflect that twisted logic; But what is behind such a delusional speech? Despair at the fall of his already terrible image and (after the perceived inconsistency about the origin of the “Taliban”, “Al Qaeda” and the role of agent Bin Ladem) of his credibility within the “international concert”. That is why to cushion the impact of such a political-military and strategic catastrophe they resort to a reinterpretation or rather a deformation of what the images report with a view to manipulating public opinion.

The truth is that the relatives of the thousands of US soldiers and other nationalities (NATO) who lost their lives or have returned with amputations or injuries for life, the official story does not matter since their lives have been wasted in the service of planning far from the official account that were drawn up by bureaucrats who are no longer in this world and have left without being judged. There never was "a good war" as some have tried to argue. Guys like Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz who devised these wars (which appear in the “Snowflakes” Memorandums) along with a host of schemers as part of a strategic plan to perpetuate US hegemony for a century (PNAC), are only the visible face of the dark interests that they represented and that benefited from those catastrophes.

Nor do they matter the thousands of Afghans who were killed by the ISAF in their incursions against villages in the interior, or those caused by their aerial bombardments in which even such destructive devices were used as the “BLU-1186” thermobaric bomb or in the famous actions of the CIA drones (directed from computer rooms in the US and the EU -Germany-) causing inexcusable massacres on concentrations of people celebrating weddings or funerals where there were only civilians. In the skewed and even childish view of Washington (replicated by its Western media employees) the only culprits are the Afghans and the Taliban.

The same thing can happen in Iraq and they know it in Washington. Like Afghanistan, this Arab country was devastated by a bloody occupation that despite attempts to mask it as part of this ruse of the so-called “fight against terrorism” and “search for freedom”, today all Iraqis are aware that the Americans and their British allies did to try to break down the resistance that still survives today in political institutions with parliamentary and, of course, military representation.

As in Afghanistan, the Americans harvested their own collaborators and it is they (and their families) who have the real concern of what it would be like to see their masters abandon them to their fate as seen in those gruesome scenes at the Kabul airport. That same sensation could be experienced in April 2016 when protesters led by the Shiite cleric Moqtadar Al Sadr entered the "Green Zone" and took over parliament, causing many of these collaborators to flee in terror to hide in the building's bathrooms.

As much as the editorials of the US media that supported and continue to support these situations (of military intervention and occupation), with the publication of alleged testimonies of Iraqis who are concerned that the Americans leave Iraq as they have done with Afghanistan, more true It is that the common of the new generation of Iraqis, be they Sunnis, Shiites or Christians, the overwhelming majority do not want the Americans on their soil for another minute.

Even today's Iraqis themselves are aware that since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein they have only had as “rulers”, gangs of criminals and subjects with extensive criminal records who, far away, proved to be interested in representing the interests and needs of all people. Iraqis. On the contrary, they have been functional to all the plans that Washington deployed in the region and that has become clear, they ended up establishing chaos, corruption, misery and greater insecurity for the benefit of another enemy such as the state of Israel. (which overlapped under these circumstances), take advantage to operate so that said Status Quo is permanent.

They are also aware that those administrators, beyond the electoral pantomime (to show that democracy had been established), were placed by the invaders themselves, so there was no alternative outside the "democratic" framework that Washington had imposed by the strength. Currently, Prime Minister Mustafa Al Khadimi is the most graphic representation of these officials who function for the US to such a degree that he is willing to try to dissolve the “Moqawama” (resistance) forces as long as the US State Department does not take away the sympathy, much less the money they deposit in your personal bank account.

Nor should we forget that the appearance of ISIS in 2014 was not a surprise to the US. That lie came onto the scene at a time when, together with their French, Turkish and Saudi colleagues, they were trying to overthrow the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad, something for which the US intelligence agencies and Pentagon advisers provided valuable cooperation to the groups “rebels” and even jihadists like “Jabbat Al Nusra” himself, an affiliate of "Al Qaeda" in Syria. In this sense, do not forget the visit of Republican Senator John Mc Cain to Syria in May 2013 where he met with the heads of the various armed gangs, among which was the one who would later present himself as Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, leader of ISIS. , a postcard that beyond wanting to deny the late senator could never be explained by Washington.

Even the assembly and preparation of ISIS was managed in training camps on the Syrian-Iraqi border with Caucasian trainers of western origin that the Pentagon could never explain. In those days, the appearance of columns of hundreds of "Toyota Hilux" trucks flying the black flag with the "Shahada" crossing from Jordan never had a reasonable explanation of its origin and the implications of the kingdom with these movements.

Nor have they given explanations on how US contractors, in addition to the crimes committed against civilians, became millionaires at the cost of the occupation. Much less, what was the degree of involvement they had in the assembly and participation in the ISIS cadres.

Despite the efforts to enforce the story that ISIS sprouted spontaneously, the evidence that was found in the Syrian and Iraqi terrain after the efforts to dismantle their Caliphate, the Iraqis realized what that was and is For this reason, for a long time there has been a growing critical mass among its population - especially young people - who want them outside their territory. That is why in the event that the US abruptly withdrew from Baghdad, the caste of collaborators implanted 17 years ago that for a handful of dollars a month they handed over to their own citizens would be at the mercy of thousands of citizens who lost their family and friends.