US/IRAQ: Troop pullout will broadly destabilise region
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- Medium-term withdrawal
- No near-term retreat
- Post-2009 withdrawal imperative
- Sobering post-withdrawal outlook
- Inadequate Iraqi government
- Inadequate US strategy
- Gates's rethink
- Key trends
- US domestic politics
- Iranian influence
- Ankara's fears
- Impatient Arab neighbours
- No European help
- Paralysed central government
- Weakness and ineptitude
- Response to pullout?
- Alternative leaders murdered
- Fragmentation and 'soft partition'
- Consequences of withdrawal
- No al-Qaida haven
- Increasing sectarian hatred
- Perception of 'defeat'
- Arab-Israeli conflict implications
- North African radicalisation
- Destabilised Jordan
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