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The more that US forces can degrade the Mahdi Army’s position and force Sadr into face-saving political moves, the weaker the
militia
will be relative to other forces in Iraq after US troops head home.
Finally, taking the fight directly to Iraq’s most powerful Shi’a
militia
and Iranians inside Iraq will align the US much more closely with its traditional Sunni Arab allies – Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf states.
Thus, Saudi Arabia has become the primary source of financing and weapons for Sunni rebel forces fighting Assad’s army, which is backed heavily by Shia Iran and its proxy, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah
militia.
The right of citizens to organize militias to fight government tyranny was therefore a founding idea of the new country, enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which declares that, because a country needs a well-regulated militia, the people have the right to bear arms.
For example, this summer, the radical Islamist
militia
Ansar Dine took advantage of the chaos that has gripped northern Mali in the wake of a coup to desecrate mausoleums of Sufi saints in Timbuktu, which has been a center of Islamic learning since the fifteenth century.
A Wary Return to RaqqaBERLIN – In mid-October, the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed, predominantly Kurdish
militia
with ties to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, “liberated” my hometown, Raqqa, from Islamic State (ISIS) fighters.
Western forces and their proxy, the PYD militia, whose real loyalty is to their leaders in Turkey, now control Raqqa.
And Kouchner himself, to the cynical amusement of the French press, has retreated radically from his insistence on an immediate intervention to protect refugees and internally displaced people in Darfur from further slaughter by the Sudanese government-backed Janjawid
militia.
How could a small militia, numbering less than a few thousand combatants, survive the onslaught of the Middle East’s most formidable military machine?
But this is the view of only a small minority of leaders, notably former Prime Minister Abu Mazin and Muhammad Dahlan, who heads his own
militia
in the Gaza Strip.
The Clinton administration acquiesced in the Taliban’s ascension to power in 1996 and turned a blind eye as that thuggish militia, in league with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, fostered narcotics trafficking and swelled the ranks of Afghan war alumni waging transnational terrorism.
That presents the West with a dilemma: Given its reluctance to commit its own ground forces to a war it knows it must win, it will have to arm the Kurds – not just the Kurdish Peshmerga
militia
of northern Iraq, but also other Kurdish groups – with more advanced weaponry.
The Saudis have financial leverage over Fatah, the ruling Palestinian party in the West Bank, and they are open to marginalizing Hamas, the Islamist
militia
that rules in Gaza.
After all, since the civil war began in 2011, Iran has provided essential financial and military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, while mobilizing its Lebanese proxy, the powerful Hezbollah militia, to fight against the rebels in Syria.
Of course, attacking Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in the name of fighting
militia
death squads has the potential to draw American military forces into a level of urban warfare unseen since the Falluja assaults of 2004 and 2005.
Al-Sadr is seen as the protector of the Shi’a of Iraq and has are an estimated 60,000 fighters in his
militia.
In 2008, following Maliki’s military operation to clean out
militia
groups in Basra, Iran’s leaders seem to have decided that this two-faced strategy had run its course.
When we see footage of nonviolent protesters being brutally beaten by police and
militia
members, it is painful to deliver the message that, if history is a guide, continued street protest will make the difference between Iran being like Myanmar or, possibly, like Czechoslovakia.
They also cite the intimidating presence of Kurdish
militia
and secret police near polling stations.
James Buchal, a Republican politician in Oregon, suggested in May that Republicans should hire right-wing
militia
groups as security guards during Republican rallies.
Moreover, Arafat contributed to the absence of a legitimate monopoly of force by ignoring the semi-autonomous armed actions of his own Fatah-based militia, as well as the Fatah-based Al–Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, not to mention other groups’ armed militias.
With an effective state, and an inclusive and functioning electoral system, Abbas could then disarm his own Fatah-based
militia.
Over the last six years, Hezbollah established a virtual state-within-a-state: its
militia
became the only military force in southern Lebanon, setting up outposts along the frontier with Israel, sometimes only a few meters away from the border.
After the much-heralded “Cedar Revolution” of 2005, Hezbollah even joined the Lebanese government, while at the same time maintaining its armed
militia
and control of the south.
The Kingdom has been the primary source of financing and weaponry for Sunni Syrian rebel forces fighting Assad’s army, which is backed heavily by Shia Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shia
militia.
In fact, the persistence, intensity, and frequency of protests – exemplified in September, when local
militia
in Benghazi killed US Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens – demonstrate the role that the culture and psychology of crowds are playing in determining the Arab world’s trajectory.
The first concerns the extent to which Pakistan will interfere in Afghan affairs, such as by aiding and abetting the Afghan Taliban and its main allies, including the Haqqani network and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s
militia.
As a result, Afghanistan is now at risk of becoming partitioned along ethnic and tribal lines, with militia- or warlord-controlled enclaves proliferating.
Similarly, he reminds his followers that the El Hakims, who head the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and their “Badr”
militia
were subsidized exiles in Iran – many fighting for Iran in the long and bitter Iran-Iraq war – until the Americans “brought them back.”
To underline his message, Sadr sent his men to attack the Badr militia, succeeding in Baghdad, where the Mahdis are numerous, but failing in Najaf, where Sadr is hated after the destruction caused last year – until his men were massacred by the Americans.
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