Iraqis do not trust US for military recruitment: Analyst
Former US congressional staffer Rodney Martin says the reason that the United States is having problems with “recruiting” forces to fight the ISIL terrorist group is that Iraqis do not trust Washington.
“The United States is having problems, missing its goals recruiting Iraqis and the Iraqi military to fight ISIL,” Martin told Press TV on Wednesday.
He added that because there is “disconnect and mistrust between the Iraqi population and the United States.”
Last month, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said the US military only managed to train around 7,000 Iraqi security forces at four specialist sites it had anticipated would be used to train 24,000 soldiers by fall.
“We simply haven’t received enough troops,” Carter said.
Martin noted recruiting soldiers should be left to the sovereign nation of Iraq.
He also said Iraqis should remember that “it was the United States and CIA that created ISIL.”
Analysts say many of the US-trained militants could eventually find themselves on the side of ISIL against a common enemy on the ground.
“The fact that the United States is spending a lot of money… in comparison to the money that it spent building ISIL and funding ISIL back as far back as 2010 and 2011 and I think Iraq is aware of that and I think the fact that they are ignoring the US efforts to recruit them is a positive development,” Martin said.
He believes that “Iraq needs to go its own way and align with Iran and other nations that are genuinely and sincerely fighting terrorism in the region and seek to maintain Iraq’s territorial integrity.”
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