Iraq is passing through the advancement of the integration of political and social components

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Western perceptions of the future of Iraq, the secret of its problems                                                                                                                                Iraq is passing through the advancement of the integration of political and social components

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• By David Keys - translation: Faten Sobh

Date:  August 28, 2014

Iraq is embroiled in danger after the failure of the army to expel «Daash» archival

 

 

 

Iraq is in danger of crumbling under the eyes of the world Almertab. The majority of the regions of the north and west under the control of «Daash». The north-east of the country where the Kurdish region He formed an autonomous region for more than two decades. It is likely that the de facto South remains within any unitary Iraqi state, it is almost certain that tends to fall under foreign influence.

Lies the dilemma in Iraq as long as it was at the cultural and social divided into three entities.

Distributed social fabric of the country in three main groups composed of Shiite Arabs, Sunni Arabs, and Kurds (with the Sunni majority). Each of these different date and the path is in contrast to a large extent today.

Sixty percent at least of Iraq's population are Shiite sect, which had a history full of complexities in Iraq. With Sunni Arabs form the second largest religious community / political, and form, although the proportion does not exceed 19 percent of Iraq's population, the team that ruled the country for generations, ended with the fall of the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein at the hands of the West in 2003.

But as long as Iraq was, for the countries of the West, of fundamental importance for the riches oil resources. Despite formal independence, which was enjoyed by the country under the Iraqi monarchy, which spanned from 1932 until 1958, the oil industry has remained a large part of which are controlled by British companies. As used British military forces to ensure the survival of the ruling pro-monarchy in power.

In 1958, Republicans leftists overthrew the monarchy in Iraq. And worried the new reality of the West, and paying agency CIA to support the American political group Baathist anti-communist. Successful leadership of the Baath party in the Sunni-majority to overthrow the leftist government in 1963, and ruled Iraq until 2003, which saw the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Since then, the predominantly Shiite-controlled government of Iraq, which proceeded in recent years to adopt a rule ruled out a sectarian character of the western regions of the country, where most of the Sunni Arabs.

The Kurds, who make up a smaller cultural groups / political three of Iraq, does not exceed the proportion of 17 percent of the population, Fiktnon mainly scattered in the mountainous areas of northern Iraq. In spite of the mostly Sunni, the mountainous nature of their culture much different from their brethren in religion.

The involvement in Iraq's modern history as a result of political developments resulting from the First World War, and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and Britain's desire to help the Kurds in the year to find a balance demographer with the Shiites in Iraq. The Kurds themselves are divided on the issue of the establishment of their own state based on a proposal from Britain and the United States and France. While Britain was more concerned about the control of the Kurdish mountains of northern Iraq, particularly Turkey, including renewable justify her defense of the Iraqi plains. Kurds have suffered, during the era of the rule of the Baath Party of Iraq, Saddam Hussein's attacks, which targeted with poison gas at the time.

Enable the Kurds, in 1991, after the Gulf War, the founding of the Kurdish region, autonomous general supporters of Saddam, while only declared a no-fly west over the Kurdish areas and prevent Saddam from bombing the area. It follows the Kurdish region now, officially, for Iraq, but it represents its own government and civil administration and the armed forces.

In light of the occurrence of the bulk of northwest Iraq today in the hands of «Daash», the question remains the most prominent is whether it was possible to achieve the advancement of Iraq under any form, or whether it will remain vulnerable to the split.

Fundamental problem

Designed geopolitics «official» for the region and imposed by the West, after the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War and beyond. West has ignored the widespread geography of political / cultural true for the area, and trying to impose his views for the future of Iraq, to ​​get dysfunction prevails in the Middle East, and drowns them in the midst of terrible.

The problem is fundamental, in that large majorities in those countries, where spatial boundaries intersect and ethnic, cultural and religious, can not defend its own interests, but access to the centers of power and stay there. While it is tragic, does not help the Western intervention and most likely it will not help in resolving the deep political problems that hit the entire region, knowing that he was actually a major cause in receiving in the first place.