The US Department of Defense intends to broadcast conflicting information about the withdrawal of its combat forces from Iraq and the future of its illegal presence in the Syrian island and the Tanf base in eastern Syria in an attempt to stay as long as possible in this geopolitical extension.
After the Iraqi government announced the agreement with the American side to withdraw the American combat forces in Iraq and to retain only training forces according to the results of the talks of the strategic dialogue between the two countries, the Pentagon spokesman declared that his country “adheres to our mission in Iraq to fight ISIS,” which raised more doubts about the intentions. Washington and the extent of its commitment to the agreement with Baghdad.
In Syria, the United States links its illegal presence with the fight against “ISIS”, while on the ground it is reviving the remnants of the organization to target the Syrian army, which is pursuing them in the desert areas surrounding the al-Tanf base and continuing with it down to the northeastern countryside of Hama.
The Iraqi-American talks are continuing to overcome the American forces ’procrastination in implementing the results of the" strategic dialogue, "which was the focus of the meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazimi recently with an American delegation headed by the White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, Brett McGurk.
The American military moves in Syria and Iraq raise many questions about Washington's goals, and the observation that it has brought in equipment and ammunition and its increased movements on the Syrian island prompted the Russian Ministry of Defense to express concern about these actions and remind the United States that the American presence in Syria is illegal and illegitimate and that the Syrian army Able to pursue and eliminate international terrorist organizations.
The American media propagates from time to time a dispute between military leaders and politicians in Washington about the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan and Iraq, but the truth is that there is an agreement between the two sides not to leave all the forces of the two countries, which keeps the persistence of instability and the possibility of interference in the internal affairs of the two countries open to all possibilities .
Strengthening the Syrian-Iraqi cooperation, which remains far below the aspiration of the peoples of the two countries at all levels, would extract the excuse for American survival, and effective cooperation between the armies of the two countries is sufficient to complete the elimination of ISIS remnants by taking many military, civil and border measures that will absolutely lead to The complete collapse of the logistical and military organization.
It is known that the US forces are taking advantage of the land borders between the two countries to bring in equipment and transport terrorists to different fronts, and this process is carried out towards Iraq, where the American air bases while the theft of Syrian oil and wheat takes place in the opposite direction, and this matter requires the Iraqi government to work to regulate entry and exit across the border and restriction That is in the legal outlets between the two countries.
The two countries' attempts to advance bilateral relations do not stop, and the recent message from Al-Kazemi to President Bashar Al-Assad, which focused on bilateral relations and the political situation in the region, and the existing cooperation between the two countries to eliminate the remaining terrorist outposts in the border region, reflects the mutual desire to convey these relations to their natural state, but the reflection of these The desire on the ground is not the size capable of solving the existing problems for various reasons, including the American presence and intervention in shaping relations between the countries of the region, not just between Syria and Iraq.
The United States deals with the countries of the region on the basis of its Middle Eastern project and links all the files, issues and events that were the cause of their emergence with each other in order to push the region to more fragmentation and dysfunction, and it has a decision on any solution or not. Therefore it exerts great pressure to prevent Arab-Arab cooperation. The largest part of the problems that Arab countries suffer from is removed.
In recent months, talk has returned in the media about the tendency of many Arab countries to restore relations between them, and this will bear fruit if good intentions, decision and will in the face of American and Western pressures are combined.
The illegal and legal US presence in Iraq and Syria will perpetuate instability in both countries. Therefore, any bilateral cooperation must begin by working to end this presence in all available ways and means.