A Protracted Struggle Ahead For Iraq - 2480 Words

In my current event article, Carter, Tawfeeq and Alkhshali show dissenting views between Iran s Leader Khamenei, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the conflict in Iraq, where Khamenei blames the conflict on extremist and remnants of Husseins military and Kerry blames Iraq’s sectarian rule. Through academic journals and news articles I will show the sectarian policies enforced by Maliki s rule caused political instability and military and governmental weakness that generated the extremist ideologies in which fuel the ISIS advances. In Bill Ardolino and Bill Roggio’s analysis: â€Å"A protracted struggle ahead for Iraq,† they describe the factors that generated opportunities for Isis rapid advances, including a politically†¦show more content†¦As late as 2012 during the Sunni protests, many protestors distanced themselves from ISIS. According to Abu Risha, they have been fighting Al Qaeda in Anbar for the past six months, but need Americas support. ISIS military campaign was devoted to the assassinations of the Sunni leaders that fought against them, so they could eliminate the leaders who could continue to rally Iraqi Sunnis against ISIS. As a result, the mainstream Sunni nationalist and ISIS agendas are greatly divided, which will soon manifest itself into greater conflict as it currently does in Syria. ISIS is as strong as it has ever been with thousands of jihadists freed from Iraq’s jails, half a billion dollars looted from Mosul’s banks, and is flushed with internation al support and recruits, which makes the Sunni-on-Sunni struggle in ISIS held territory harder to uproot terrorist organizations in the territory it has acquired without outside assistance and organization. This struggle will become a sectarian war as according to Ardolino and Roggio, without quick political accommodation and direct Western intervention, the conflict could slip into â€Å"the sectarian ghettoization and murder that characterized the worst years of the Iraq War.† (Ardolino; Roggio) This sectarian divide is inflamed by Iranian