The US is sponsoring corruption in Iraq, and Iraq Will Never Forge National Identity

[Mesopotamian]

My comment on Leo's latest awesome episode on where the left goes too far.

When Mr. Leo commented on forging an Iraqi identity.. 

The problem though is that this is unlikely to take place any time sooner. 

Iraq is simply not going to have that as long as the United States is still the world's policeman. 

See in 2010, we had an election where a list called "The Iraqia" which was led by politician Ayad Allawi and include members from all Iraqi ethnicities and denominations won the election, but the problem back then was that the other purely Shiite-led list wasn't satisfied, so they took the matter to the Iraqi federal court, which came up with a new interpretation for the Iraqi constitution that says that the largest coalition that is formed AFTER the election ends has the right to form and lead the government. that's not the party who actually won the election.

This interpretation actually makes the citizen powerless, and it fucks up everything.. Why would I vote to any party if at the end they're going to conspire with other parties or blocs and form the government? And after all it was just a pretext so that the power stays at the hands of majority Shiite people.

I personally have voted only once in 2006, and that's it. I've never voted again.

What's the US's role in this? 

The US's role is there, the inaction to hold Iraqis accountable for this corruption, they were there and did nothing when the Iraqi federal court came up with that nonsense which basically keeps the power in the hands of Shiite forever, or until Iraq's wealth is no longer needed, therefore no international presence is going to stay there and keep the status-quo, and it descend into chaos and bloody wars again..

After all, Iraq is not a state, it is a pseudo-state and just like Afghanistan, if no real effort to build it into a real state are made, it's going to crumble down sooner or later..that's what I truly feel.. 

Mr. Leo, At the stage-blue, it is not possible to run any state! all stage-blue states are going to dismantle and dissapear at some point in history..

[Mesopotamian]

The steps of the descend and dismantle is as follow:

1- The power in the hand of fixed players, so not only there's no progress that's going to happen, but also all the problems are going to be swept under the carpet

2- The inequality is going to grow, and more and more people are going to get poor.

3- When a revolution takes place, then the country is likely to dismantle, just like what happened when ISIS took hold of like 30% of Iraq and was able to keep it under its control for years, cuz literally, Iraq cities are separated, and we don't have any good system in place to connect those cities and make them seem as one country. The culture of a car is the dominant, and not everybody can afford a car, so most people dob't even travel to other cities unless it is absolutely necessary. If I want to go to a city that's two hours drive by car, I need to spend additional 2 hours just waiting for another 3 passengers to fill a shared taxi, alongside multiple military checkpoints everywhere which assume you're criminal until you prove otherwise. In each checkpoint you need to show identity, which is just makes for a crappy experience. I honestly feel like a criminal when I go outside the city, and tehrefor I don't go outside the city! probably once every 3 years!

Whenever I remember that I can't travel even within Iraq, I honestly feel bad.. therefor, Fuck Iraq, and my life purpose is to relocate elsewhere one day before it crumbles down and it becomes a butchery for people... More genocides are coming on the way..

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by Mesopotamian