A bit late advice given today on New Europe’s arti­cle “Learn­ing the lessons of Iraq”:

The US should be work­ing to cre­ate a strong, uni­fied gov­ern­ment, rather than strength­en­ing sec­tar­ian militias.

The ques­tion now: What to do? Will the U.S. revive the coup plan?

Few weeks ago, Iraqi writer Haroun Moham­mad said the fol­low­ing on Al-Quds Al-Arabi:

It is not coin­ci­dence that Iraqi offi­cials warn of pos­si­ble coup…This came after the occu­pa­tion forces appointed a senior Iraqi mil­i­tary offi­cer and for­mer com­man­der of Repub­li­can Guards as an adviser works directly with the Amer­i­can mil­i­tary forces in Iraq, lives right now in the Green Zone.

This move raised objec­tions by Iraqi polit­i­cal blocs, and dis­cussed with the U.S. ambas­sador in Iraq Ryan Crocker and Gen. Petraeus. The answer was accord­ing to sources in Dawa Party:

“Mr. Maliki you are not allowed to inter­fere with our own busi­ness, as we are not allowed to inter­fere in your business”.

The writer didn’t say who is this high-ranked for­mer gen­eral but I can. His name is Ra’ad Al-Hamdani, his name is in Wikipedia [look at the right side­bar under com­man­ders].

Al-Hamdani even recently fin­ished a report he wrote to the U.S. mil­i­tary forces shows his ideas of how to evolve the new Iraqi mil­i­tary insti­tu­tions and answers this question:

Is the cur­rent Iraqi mil­i­tary force a suit­able alter­na­tive for a national Iraqi army that can replace the Amer­i­can forces in the future?

Below is an image from the report, and if any­body inter­ested I can publish/release/translate the whole report: