The New Iraqi Political Failure: America Wants To Reduce Its Number of Embassies

The news of America’s determination to reduce to its number of embassies in Baghdad represents a major political failure for all Iraqis. It signals a decline in America’s interest in Iraq as well as their weak relationship, which itself represents a lost opportunity in a rare moment at which Iraq could take advantage of the potential of this great country.

Two days ago, this proposition was confirmed by the spread of the self-destructive tendencies of the Iraqis. I first posed this description of the Iraqi people in my studies “Psychoanalysis of Iraqi Character,” published more than ten years ago. Ever since we overcame the defeats and misfortunes of old and the establishment of the modern state in 1921, we find the history of Iraq in decline and its destruction at the hands of its own children, despite all the revolutions of enormous opportunities. But Iraqis insist upon their own thinking and their misguided political behavior which run contrary to the laws of reason and the interests of their country. One sees Iraqis wasting their wealth, supporting military coups since 1958, and struggling for power and money. But the result is a comprehensive destruction, rather than capitalization, of this great country.

It is a real political disaster when Iraq’s relationship with countries such as Syria and Iran improve only to be provided with terrorists and the murder of its children. Yet they deteriorate with America, Britain, France, Japan and other countries that are useful to us. What kind of political mindset captivates the Iraqi people, sabotaging them and blinding them of their better interests? How will they build a home in the absence of honest national political elites and the enlightened masses?

Where is the appreciation for the American liberator of the Iraqis? Why did the government and people not erect a statue of the brave American soldiers in a Baghdad square in their honor for the public sacrifices for the freedom of Iraq?

National treason is not restricted to spying on the country; it is also the destruction of Iraq’s relationship with a country needed to help us in the process of construction, reconstruction, and transfer of science and technology such as the United States. The deterioration of our relationship is a form of national treason, whether it is performed by the remnants of the Baath regime within the government and parliament, or by the thugs in Iran, or by the mobs and savage rabble.