Why America has failed in the Western Asia?
In a report on the reasons for the US defeat in the West Asian region, an American publication wrote that the lack of understanding of the region’s ancient tribal and social dynamics, as well as its reliance on the military, has left the US with no gains in the region.
Perhaps nothing could be greater than the images that showed Afghans hanging from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft and falling and being killed hundreds of meters from the ground, a major US defeat in the presence of the US Air Force. Describe his 20 years in Afghanistan, as well as his greater incompetence in nation-building in the Middle East.
“The $ 2.3 trillion in Afghanistan paid out of the pockets of American taxpayers, as well as the sacrifices of 2,400 US troops to overcome ethnic differences,” wrote National Interest in a report on the US military presence in West Asia. “The tribalism and religion that was used to build a democratic and friendly Afghanistan was not enough.”
“Iraq has a similar story,” it added. After spending $ 2 trillion and sacrificing 4,500 US troops, Iraq was presented to Iran in a silver tray. In other words, with the ouster of Saddam Hussein (former dictator of Iraq), the United States did what Iran could not do during the eight-year war in 1980, and Tehran has never had as much influence in Iraq as it does now. The Iraqi parliament has voted to expel US troops, and Iranian-backed militant groups regularly attack US forces stationed at Iraqi military bases with rockets, mortars and UAVs in an attempt to force Americans out of Iraq.
The United States still does not see the futility of its efforts in Syria
Like Afghanistan and Iraq, and despite spending billions of dollars, Washington has stubbornly failed to see the futility of its nationalization efforts in Syria.
Ethnic, tribal and religious realities, as well as the presence of regional powers such as Russia, Turkey and Iran, have prevented the creation of a US-friendly Kurdish state in the region. The United States should reduce its losses rather than continue its futile efforts.
Robert Fort, the former US ambassador to Syria (2011-2014), has previously said that the current US approach (to Syria) has no achievable end. Without US military and diplomatic cover, Kurdish armed groups would probably have to confront Turkey and the Syrian government on two or three fronts.
To prevent this, the United States must remain in eastern Syria forever, while continuing to support the Kurdish armed forces.
ISIS is not America’s problem
After the collapse of the Iraqi regime after the occupation of Iraq in 2003, the ISIS group was formed and committed crimes against Shiite Muslims as well as thousands of Iraqis and Syrians of Turkmen, Yazidi, Chaldean and Assyrian ethnicities. ISIL also killed a number of Turkish citizens. The only known direct US casualties from ISIS attacks have been the killing of two journalists and two contractors.
ISIS is the problem of Iran, Syria, Russia and Turkey, not the United States
If ISIS rises again one day, it will be Russia, Iran, Syria and Turkey, rather than the United States, and the region has its own ways to deal with it.
It must be borne in mind that in the end, the United States, not Iran, will be a foreign power in the Middle East. High-ranking officials of Kurdish armed groups are also well aware that the alliance with the United States has been successful, and they are well aware that they do not intend to confront Iran on behalf of Israel.
The United States has made great strides, but “nation building” has not been one of them. From Vietnam to Afghanistan to Iraq, the United States has repeatedly proven that nation-building is not where its power lies.
