How War “is Exposing Iraq’s Fundamental Failures” iraq-businessnews

By Hayder Al Shakeri, for The National. Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.

How the war on Iran is exposing Iraq’s fundamental failures

When Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani called for de-escalation and dialogue in the early days of the war on Iran, his message reflected the fact that Iraq does not want this war.

But wanting to stay out of a regional confrontation and having the institutional capacity to do so are two very different things.

Iraq has the former. It has never built the latter.

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