The former defence official believes the Biden administration’s new vision for policy in the region contains “glaring omissions and fails to address key obstacles”
invasion of Iraq, which took place 20 years ago this week, set in motion a series of commitments to the Middle East, which have shaped the limits and tempered the expectations of American policy in the region and beyond. The 2003 invasion, a tactical success, gave way to a second act that laid bare how unprepared the United States was to win the peace.
In February, the Middle East co-ordinator in the National Security Council, Brett McGurk, gave a speech articulating what he called the “Biden doctrine” for the region. Its main security objectives are deterring Iran from disrupting regional stability, building the military capabilities of regional partners and connecting them through a regional security architecture that delivers the necessary defensive tools to neutralise threats .
So what will happen when the day comes, as it probably will, when Congress or a future American president, succeeds in ending the American military presence there? Have we enabled the Iraqis to contain any resurgence ofby shifting to more appropriate tools of security assistance and co-operation? Or have we continued to perform the same vestigial tasks of the “DefeatThese questions do not even begin to address the non-military efforts required to confront the drivers of instability and...
As for what Mr McGurk did address in his remarks, the administration sees a “regional security architecture” as an elegant solution to deal with American priorities and resources shifting away from the Middle East. There is an opportunity to construct such an architecture that reduces the region’s reliance on American forces. Here, however, the problem is not vision but political will.
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