Iraqization

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The term Iraqization is often used in media commentary to denote the sinking of a state occupied by well-meaning forces of order into the chaos of civil war , as is believed to be the case in Iraq after its occupation by the USA and its allies in 2003 following the Iraq war .

This process can be also as a failure of nation-building (nation-building) indicate in ethnically heterogeneous state.

Characteristic of the destabilization of Iraq that has been observed since 2003 - which gives the term “Iraqization” its connotations - is an epidemic number of suicide bombings with fatalities both among the (domestic and foreign) law enforcement officers and the civilian population .

Iraqization often means an expansion of the activities of regional, simply structured, violent groups in which Islamists and pan-Arabists , left and right of all stripes, Sunnis and Shiites come together behind an ideologically thinned consensus against common enemies (here: the USA and the West ) .

In contrast to the well-known variants of Islamic or Arab extremism , the Iraqi groups manage entirely without a “unifying national movement or nationalist idea, without isolable and therefore vulnerable international networks, without joint ideological or religious training and ultimately without the necessarily elitist planning of difficult attacks ". Only the presence of western troops, especially American soldiers, is rejected by the vast majority of the Iraqi population. In practice, the Iraqi terror needs nothing more than unwavering self-sacrifice and conviction, handguns and simple explosives that are used in various ways against the "occupation forces" but also against national security forces. Ideologically, the differences between the individual groups are limited to the common struggle against imperialism and Zionism , that is, America and the Jews that are added to the United States in the Arab region .

From a Iraqisation is also often spoken in the media at the time in connection with the Afghanistan mission, bringing a similar escalation of the situation will be as indicated in Iraq.

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