Financial Times: US Seeks to Keep Influence in Iraq

January 22, 2012 // Comments Off on Financial Times: US Seeks to Keep Influence in Iraq

The Financial Times interviewed me and others on the future of Iraq, based around the premise that “the political tensions in Baghdad have quickly raised questions about how much sway the US will retain in Iraq.” In other words, what were almost nine years, a trillion dollars and 4478 American lives worth?

The article also focuses on the role of the World’s Largest Embassy (c):

Some Iraqi political factions have already voiced alarm about the size of the embassy. Jawad al-Shahyli, a lawmaker who is close to Moqtada al-Sadr, the Iranian-backed Shia cleric, said the embassy “constitutes a major threat to the Iraqi political situation,” according to the country’s official news agency. “We have no doubt about that. The nature of task of the US embassy in Baghdad is an intelligence one.”

Read the full piece at the Financial Times site.

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