International Review: Who is the biggest "source of chaos" in the Middle East?

　　China News Service, Beijing, July 26th, title:

　　China News Agency reporter Zhang Chenyi

　　Recently, a commentary was published on the website of Microsoft’s National Broadcasting Corporation in the United States, detailing the US involvement in the affairs of countries and regions such as Iran, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and pointed out that the results were counterproductive: After the situation in the Middle East and surrounding regions deteriorates, the relevant countries may have to rely on themselves. Power to develop a permanent political structure.

Data map: A suicide bombing attack occurred in the center of Al-Baqda, Iraq.

　　As one of the first cradles of human civilization, the Middle East has been shown in the image of "the world's powder kegs" in recent decades.

Foreign forces headed by the United States intervened deeply and tried all kinds of methods to provoke conflicts, so that the old problems here have not been resolved, and new problems continue to emerge.

　　Not long ago, the US military launched an air strike on the border between Iraq and Syria, killing at least five people, including a child.

This is the second time the US Biden administration has launched a military operation in the Middle East since it took office.

The United States not only wields big sticks at will in the Middle East, it also prevents the emergence of peace forces in the region.

Prior to the new round of the Palestine-Israel conflict in May, the United States had repeatedly obstructed the efforts of the United Nations to resolve the conflict despite the large number of Palestinian civilians killed and injured.

　　This is just a microcosm of America's brutal interference in the affairs of the Middle East and surrounding regions.

After the "9.11" incident, the United States launched the "Greater Middle East Democracy Project" and proposed to transform 22 Arab and Islamic countries in the Middle East, as well as countries such as Turkey, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, with Western values ​​such as "freedom, democracy, and human rights." Eliminate the breeding ground for terrorism.

But the actual result is that many countries have intensified conflicts, political chaos, countless deaths and injuries, civilian displacement, resulting in stagnation or even regression of economic development, and the development of civilization has also been cast a huge shadow.

　　The United States has not brought justice to the Middle East, but only fights for its own interests.

Counting from the Afghan War initiated by the United States in 2001, no country in the Middle East and surrounding regions has embarked on the road of peace and development relying on the intervention of the United States.

　　In 2003, the United States used only a small bottle of "washing powder" to start the Iraq war on the grounds that the Saddam government possessed "weapons of mass destruction", resulting in 200,000 to 250,000 civilian deaths and about 2.5 million refugees.

Al Jazeera reported recently that, judging from the current situation, Iraq is increasingly becoming the main battlefield in the conflict between the United States and Iran.

Nearly 20 years have passed since the Iraq War. The world has not seen a peaceful and prosperous country relying on the United States to rise on the coast of the Persian Gulf.

　　In 2011, the United States united with many Western countries to support the Libyan opposition in air raids against government forces and forcibly overthrew the Gaddafi regime.

Up to now, the political turmoil and people's livelihood issues in Libya have still attracted international public opinion for a long time.

　　On July 8, 2021, U.S. President Biden stated that the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan that has lasted for nearly 20 years will officially end on August 31 ahead of schedule.

According to relevant statistics, since 2001, the war in Afghanistan has caused a total of approximately 241,000 deaths, including more than 71,000 civilians.

International public opinion generally believes that the irresponsible "first chaos and last abandonment" of the United States in Afghanistan has left a huge "security black hole" here.

"The Economist" website once published an article that "the United States puts Afghanistan on the brink of collapse."

　　In the Middle East, although territorial disputes, energy contention, ethnic estrangement, civilization conflicts, religious disputes and other contradictions exist for a long time, these contradictions are not insoluble.

But when the United States intervenes directly or indirectly for the sake of geopolitical and economic interests, various internal and external forces are intertwined, causing any one of the above contradictions to be as important as a thousand.

　　As the commentary article on the Microsoft NBC website said, given that the United States has failed in most of the Middle East’s previous efforts to implement Western values, the United States should understand that if it wants to help the Middle East achieve peace and stability in the future, the United States should be sincere. , Transparency and consistent implementation of the principles of "the people are above oil".

　　Those who have attained the Tao will help.

People all over the world are pursuing the common values ​​of peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom.

As the biggest source of chaos in the Middle East, the United States should correct its mistakes, understand and respect this common value of all mankind with a head-up attitude, refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, walk in the same direction with other countries in the world, and cooperate frankly to prevent the Middle East from becoming a "failed region." ".

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