The American writer Paul Pilar said that US diplomacy deteriorated during the era of US President Donald Trump. New names to nominate unqualified persons for important positions, and to withdraw from agreements that have been carefully negotiated under previous administrations.
Earlier last year, during a crisis with Iran, the Trump administration called in non-essential staff from the US embassy in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, and it was unclear what developments, if any, had led to This step, as long as the administration is considering a military attack on Iran, it is logical that Iran would respond by targeting American interests, and here it may be wise to evacuate Americans from Iraq, but doubts were about the interpretation of the White House security risks in that region, during the unrest Violent last September in the city of Bass Southern Iraq.
Some mortar rounds hit the U.S. consulate were enough for National Security Adviser John Bolton to inform the Pentagon of plans to attack Iran, although the consulate was unharmed, and landed in an empty place, while the Iranian consulate in Basra caught fire during the same unrest.
Given the volatile political and economic situation in an important Arab country such as Iraq, there is still a lot of work to be done by the US government. If one listens to the Trump administration itself, part of that action is countering Iranian influence. In Iraq, but with fewer staff there will be no effective means to do so.
The writer pointed out that this situation is one of the consequences of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 without thinking about what will come after Saddam Hussein, exceeding the pink expectations that preached the existence of a democratic and liberal state, but now it is clear that most of what shakes Iraq today is the aftermath of the US invasion, including In that turmoil in Basra, the rise and fall of ISIS, and increased Iranian influence.
As the author pointed out, the continued diplomatic withdrawal in Iraq comes along with the news that the Trump administration, as part of its anti-Iranian messages, will send more troops to Saudi Arabia, and these two developments illustrate a clear and persistent fallacy in the Trump administration: An area such as the Middle East must be translated through US military presence or US military operations, and Washington is often seen as an alternative to military intervention is isolationism. In fact, the most effective alternative is often to provide strong support for US interests using All instruments of government, with a focus on diplomacy first and foremost.
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