{"id":6647,"date":"2010-08-19T13:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:23:22","slug":"u-s-combate-troops-leave-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/19\/u-s-combate-troops-leave-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. combate troops leave Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6649\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/U.S.-combat-troops1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. combat troops\" width=\"120\" height=\"86\" \/>Aiming at a September 1st goal of leaving only 50,000 troops in the country, the last U.S. combat brigade has <a title=\"left\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-ml-iraq-americans-head-home,0,5305370,print.story\" target=\"_blank\">left <\/a>Iraq &#8212; leaving some 56,000 U.S. non-combat\u00a0troops still there.\u00a0 International relations Professor<a title=\"Augustus Richard Norton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/norton\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Augustus Richard Norton<\/a>, a Middle-East specialist and an advisor to the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, says much focus has been on whether the Iraqi government&#8217;s police forces\u00a0&#8212; trained by the U.S. &#8212; will be able to provide security for its citizens.\u00a0 But an equally important question, he says, is about the impact the drawdown will have on\u00a0U.S. political influence in Iraq.\u00a0 He feels U.S. leverage will decrease, playing into the hands of Prime Minister Maliki.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe problem is that the prime minister&#8217;s quest for power may well foster more instability and violence.\u00a0 <\/em><em>Therefore, even as Washington contemplates a qualified exit in 2011, it is in the enlightened interest of the U.S. to play a keener, more active role in fostering a collaborative political solution in Iraq, one which might nudge Maliki out of the driver&#8217;s seat.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Augustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, <a href=\"mailto:arn@bu.edu\">arn@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aiming at a September 1st goal of leaving only 50,000 troops in the country, the last U.S. combat brigade has left Iraq &#8212; leaving some 56,000 U.S. non-combat\u00a0troops still there.\u00a0 International relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, a Middle-East specialist and an advisor to the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group, says much focus has been on whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}