Very soon we are likely to
see a marriage of convenience, with no love or romance, but an arrangement just
to set right the mess created by the US and UK in Iraq. Where ever US has intervened,
they have left the place and people in uncertain frame of mind encouraging
civil unrest.
It was the sexed up
intelligence reports that claimed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, based on
which the US and UK sent troops to Iraq. The eventual state of affairs in Iraq
today is there for all to see. No weapons of mass destruction were ever found
but a regime was toppled and a society in tatters, a recipe for civil unrest.
All this because they did not like the dictator Saddam and his independent
policies some of which were against them. Later at least in UK, some intelligence
guys were hauled up for sexing up’ their intelligence reports. But nothing of
this happened in US.
The political crisis in Iraq
may make strange bedfellows of he US and Iran, but don’t expect any love
between them. It is an old adage coming into play – my enemy’s enemy is my
friend, raising the unthinkable prospect of co-operation between the US and
Iran to support the beleaguered Nouri al Maliki against the fanatical jihadists
of the Islamic state in Iraq and al-sham (ISIS). Over the past few days,
Washington and Tehran have been eyeing each other. Iran has already made the
first move by indicating they are not averse to supporting US in this fight
against the ISIS. Don’t they make strange bedfellows?
This will also be the first
foreign policy test for Modi and BJP. The ministry of external affairs
confirmed that 40 Indian construction workers, most of them from Punjab, had
been abducted, presenting the barely month-old NDA government its biggest
foreign policy test. Apart from this, about 46 Kerala nurses are stranded in
northern Iraq. To add to their woes, most of them had paid hefty amounts for
their visa and travel papers. It would be difficult for them to return empty-handed
now. This unrest in Iraq may put additional burden on Indian oil imports too.
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