The U.S. withdrawal from Iraq removes militias’ excuse for weapons, but Baghdad must prove sovereignty amid Kurdish security fears.
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As American troops leave Iraq, the nation faces militias, Iranian influence, and Kurdish fears, while the Iraq War Legacy endures.
US Iraq Withdrawal confronts hardline militias that refuse to disarm, threatening Baghdad’s sovereignty and Iran’s expanding corridor of armed proxies.
A US withdrawal from Gulf bases would hand Iran a strategic win while doing nothing to reduce missile threats.
Decades of military overreach and the Iran war prove the US Middle East strategy must end with full withdrawal.
Five years after withdrawal, the Afghanistan reckoning exposes how exaggerated terror fears trapped America in a costly war that ended in Taliban victory.
Why US Middle East bases are disadvantage: they create threat, not counter it. Time to retrench.
Iran war shows perils of US Mideast bases: sitting targets, drag region into conflict. Time to close.
US troop withdrawal from Iraq faces uncertainty amid war; forces remain exposed, strategically vulnerable.
Syria is not Libya—it retains a state—but could become one if the world looks away: consolidate authority before withdrawal.