Iraqi troops not motivated to fight ISIL under US leadership: Scholar
Iraqi troops are not motivated to fight the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group under the American military leadership, a scholar of international relations in New York says.
Professor James Petras, who has written dozens of books on the Latin America and the Middle East, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Saturday while commenting on a report which says the US has deployed 160 more troops to a military airbase in Iraq to purportedly push back Daesh terrorists.
“I think the US has clearly failed to train the Iraqi troops to defend their country, largely because the Iraqis are non-motivated to fight under the US leadership,” Petras said.
“So the US has begun to re-enter Iraq to try to boast its defenses because ISIS has made enormous advances under the present system,” he stated, referring to the Takfiri organization by an acronym.
“I don’t think the US 100 troops or so is going to make much of a difference. I think it is part of a larger process of re-entry into the Iraq war – 100 today, 500 tomorrow, several thousands the next time,” the analyst noted.
“So I think this is a temporary measure which will have a very limited impact. And I think the question is Iraq securing its independence under a government which can motivate the military and the population to resist the terrorists from ISIS,” Professor Petras concluded.
The US soldiers landed at a military base east of Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar, Iraq’s largest and westernmost province that borders Syria, according to media reports.
Hundreds of US military personnel are already stationed at Iraq’s Habbaniyah airbase as part of a so-called training and advising mission.
The Daesh terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control large parts of Iraq and Syria.
The ISIL extremists, with members from several Western countries, have been active in Iraq, Syria and Libya over the past years, notorious for their acts of terror and atrocities against people of different religious and ethnic communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians and others.
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