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The latest report by Kurdish Lobby Australia, ‘Post-ISIS States: Iraq, May – December 2018’. We delayed sending it out as we waited for some good news regarding government formation in Iraq. Unfortunately the Government of Iraq is deadlocked. This and other matters do not portend well for the future. If you are interested at all in Iraq, the Middle East,  terrorism, the UN, the US and Australia’s future military and reconstruction commitments in Iraq and the wider region, please take the time to read the report. It contains observations like:

 

By October 2019, the US will have spent an estimated $6 trillion on the ‘war on terror’, but less than 6.2 percent of its military expenditure on non-military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen (2001 – 2018). If countries were obliged to match public and private investment in non-military efforts with their military expenditure, there would be less war and terrorism. 

If the political and economic status quo in the Middle East continues, there will be more war and terrorism, making investment in reconstruction (as opposed to humanitarian aid) a waste of resources. Hence, the way stabilisation and reconstruction is implemented in Iraq and Syria, and whom it empowers, is critical. 

For justice to prevail, the rule of law needs to distinguish between those in power (nation state leaders, ISIS emirs, non-state militia commanders) and their fighters who commit/ted atrocities, the administrators who enable/d them or instigate/d oppressive laws, administrative staff, and in the case of ISIS, relatives and sympathisers who support a caliphate and ISIS fanaticism, as distinct from those who oppose ISIS fanaticism. Such distinctions are not currently being made in Iraqi courts.

 

Yours Sincerely

 

Eziz Bawermend  BSc MBA

President

Gina Lennox Ph D
Public Officer

Kurdish Lobby Australia

Web: www.kurdishlobbyaustralia.com

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Post ISIS States VIII – IRAQ

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