Hello Didier, America no longer wants to be the policeman of the world, it is Donald Trump who declared it yesterday in Iraq during a surprise visit to his troops.
Indeed, and a priori we might be tempted to believe that it is rather good news. Military interventions are obviously not a panacea. Wars are expensive, especially in far-off lands that are inherently complicated. And then they tend to last, only very rarely winning brilliant victories. So from this point of view, we can only rejoice at the pacifism displayed by the White House.
Only the problem is that abandoning the battlefield, especially in the middle of a fight, has never done away with his opponents, on the contrary. And today those who rejoice most loudly in the splendid isolationism advocated by Donald Trump, are the worst enemies of America.
Starting with the jihadists of the Islamic State
Absolutely. They can not believe in such a windfall. And who have also celebrated in their own way, in Afghanistan, by a deadly attack in the heart of Kabul. Balance: 43 dead and 25 wounded only hours after the declaration of Donald Trump. In Iraq and Syria the case is even more incredible. The Daesh Caliphate was almost defeated after a difficult five-year campaign. But the sudden cessation of military pressure on its last bastion gives the terrorist organization an unexpected breath of fresh air.
And the opportunity to reorganize its clandestine structures to strike in Europe, and perhaps one day in the United States.
Because the war in Iraq and Syria helped to protect our countries from large-scale attacks.
Exactly, an insurance that is priceless but as it works. We forget it too often. A number yet should put us in the ear. The Kurds hold 584 wives of jihadists and their 1,250 children in their prisons. We talk a lot about it, but they also captured no less than 900 foreign fighters of 44 different nationalities. Among these detainees, several French people like Thomas Barnouin, Thomas Collange, or Adrien Guihal, who had claimed the murder of a couple of police in Magnanville in the Yvelines, in June 2016, then the attack in Nice on July 14 of the same year.
But what will happen when Turkey, or the Syrian regime, decide to attack the Kurds to punish them for being faithful allies of the Westerners? Well, we are likely to find these terrorists in the wild, free to hit again. Because a world without a policeman, it is not necessarily a world in peace.