A NEW STRATEGY FOR IRAQ AND THE CONTINUATION OF THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
A NEW STRATEGY FOR IRAQ AND THE CONTINUATION OF THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

Summary/Abstract: Immediately after the 9/11 events, the whole world was on America’s side in its anti-terrorism campaign but in more than five years after the event this unity was abraded. In March 2003, USA started the Iraqi war which – although seemed to end very quickly – today is a true cask with powder. There is no day without killings and the tensions between Shi’a and Sunni turn to a civil war. The El Pais newspaper wrote that the continuity of the USA’s participation to this long and bloody fight probably will make that its end to be a “frontal encounter with Iran and with a great part of the Islamic world”1 . In the same time, USA has a new engagement in Afghanistan where the intensification of the Talibans’ attacks forced Washington to think of the troops’ supplementation in the theatre, despite a more stressed opposition of the democrats and the American population. The White house Administration now tries to redefine its preventive action conception and will continue its plans regarding the emplacement the antimissile shield2 on Czech and Poland territories, “no matter if the NATO allies agree or not” - as general Henry Obring, the head of the Antimissile Defence Agency, stated3 . President Bush motivated that “our nation depends on foreign oil and this dependence makes us more vulnerable to hostile regimes, to terrorists. Furthermore, brings us more prejudices to our economy”. References to the new American strategy for Iraq and to the continuation of the war against the terrorism try to clarify this hot subject that some analysts watch with concern and appreciate as an indirect contribution of USA to the terrorism dissemination.

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