Dans le monde magique du NY Times, les États-Unis ont envahi l’Irak pour en faire la première pierre d’un Moyen-Orient démocratique… : Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-iranian-power.html
When the United States invaded Iraq 14 years ago to topple Saddam Hussein, it saw Iraq as a potential cornerstone of a democratic and Western-facing Middle East, and vast amounts of blood and treasure — about 4,500 American lives lost, more than $1 trillion spent — were poured into the cause.
From Day 1, Iran saw something else: a chance to make a client state of Iraq, a former enemy against which it fought a war in the 1980s so brutal, with chemical weapons and trench warfare, that historians look to World War I for analogies. If it succeeded, Iraq would never again pose a threat, and it could serve as a jumping-off point to spread Iranian influence around the region.
In that contest, Iran won, and the United States lost.
