Impi yamanje yaseMelika e-Iraq iwumzabalazo wokufuna umgomo. Kwaqala ngo-Agasti njengokungenelela kosizo lwabantu, okwenziwe umkhankaso wokuvikela abantu baseMelika ezweni, kwaba yisu lokuvikela amaKurds, okwalandelwa impi yempi yokunqoba i-Islamic State entsha (IS, aka ISIS, aka ISIL). , beseโฆ kuhle, okuthile eSyria okuzonqunywa ngokuhamba kwesikhathi.
Okwamanje, i-Iraq War 3.0 ivele iqhubeke, ingxenye yomkhankaso wokuqhunyiswa kwamabhomu, ingxenye yemishini yokuqeqesha amasosha abhidlikile amasosha ase-US adalelwe i-Iraq War 2.0, konke phakathi kwe-miasma yokusakazwa kwezindaba okujwayelekile. Amasosha aseMelika asondelene nokulwa (ecabanga ukuthi awubali imisebenzi yokuzivikela, ukuthola oshonile, nokundiza ukuhlasela komhlaba izindiza ezinophephela emhlane njenge "combat"), noma ngabe zenza sengathi abavubukuli yempi yaseMelika edlule, ihlola amanxiwa ezisekelo ezilahliwe zase-U.S. Ngaleso sikhathi, amasosha eShia asebenzisa ukungqubuzana Ukuhlanzwa kobuzwe weSunni kanye Iran ube ngumdlali obaluleke kakhulu ezindabeni zase-Iraq. Izingqinamba ezibalulekile zokuthatha izwe laseMelika kwangaphambilini - inkohlakalo, omele uhulumeni, amafutha ukwabelana ngemali engenayo - ihlala ingakaxazululwanga. AmaKurds asagcina"Ukunqobaโ ngokumelene nezidlamlilo ze-IS edolobheni laseKobani emngceleni waseTurkey ngaphandle โkokunqoba.โ
Okwamanje, isikhalo saseWashington manje sibonakala ngathi: โLinda i- entwasahlobo ecasulayo!" Ekuhumusheni lokho kusho ukuthi: linda ibutho lase-Iraqi ukuthi lithole amasosha anele asanda kuqeqeshwa aseMelika nahlomile ukuze athathe isinyathelo eMosul. Lelo dolobha, yiqiniso, lingelesibili ngobukhulu ezweni futhi lisabuswa "i-caliphate" entsha eyamenyezelwa yinhloko ye-Islamic State u-Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Sekukonke, akuzona izinto ezikhuthazayo.
Awukwazi ukuba nakho ukunqoba uma une angazi nhlobo lapho umugqa wokugcina ukhona. Kodwa kunohlangothi olulodwa olukhanyayo kulesi simo. Uma ungakwazi ukudala Ukunqoba ku Iraq kuma-parade oSuku lwe-VI esizayo, ungenza okungenani inzuzo esimweni esihlakazekayo lapho.
Ithimba le-Team America's Arms Sales Force
Maphakathi nendawo yokulahla izindaba zamaholide kaDisemba, i-U.S. Defence Security Cooperation Agency (I-DSCA) ngokuthula yaziswa ICongress yezivumelwano ezimbalwa zezikhali ezisalindile ze-Iraq. I-DSCA yihhovisi le-Pentagon elibhekele ukuxhumanisa izivumelwano zezikhali phakathi kosonkontileka bezokuvikela baseMelika nabathengi bangaphandle.
Ngaphambi kokuthi lezo zinkulungwane zamasosha angekho phansi aqale ukopha e-Iraq ngasekupheleni konyaka owedlule, abasebenzi be-DSCA benza ingxenye enkulu yabo bonke abasebenzi bezempi base-US. Lapho. Abasebenzi bayo, empeleni, bajwayelekile Amanxusa ase-U.S ngenjwayelo. Lokhu akufanele kumangaze, njengoba ukuthengiswa kwezikhali nezinye izinhlobo zemishini yempi kuyibhizinisi elikhulu ezinkampanini eziningi zaseMelika, futhi uhulumeni wase-US ujabule kakhulu ukusiza. Eqinisweni, kukhona ngisho a ibhuku ukuqondisa ohulumeni bangaphandle ngenqubo yokuthenga.
I-DSCA isebenza ngaphansi kwesitatimende semishini ethi โU.S. angase adayisele amazwe angaphandle kanye nezinhlangano zamazwe ngamazwe izinto zokuvikela kanye nezinsiza lapho uMongameli ethola ngokusemthethweni ukuthi ukwenza kanjalo kuzoqinisa ukuphepha kwe-U.S. ukuthuthukisa ukuthula emhlabeni.โ Ngenkathi iPentagon ithwala kanzima, izincomo zangempela lapho amazwe angathenga khona amagiya ase-U.S. unobhala wombuso, bese igxivizwe ngerabha nguKhongolose.
Ngokuqondene namazwe angakwazi ukukhokhela izikhali zase-US, iWashington inayo Izimali Zezempi Zangaphandle hlela umkhono wayo. Lokhu kuvula indlela yokuthi uhulumeni wase-US akhokhele izikhali kwamanye amazwe - kuphela "ukukhuthaza ukuthula emhlabeni," yebo - usebenzisa amadola akho entela, aphinde asetshenziswe ezandleni zezinkampani zezempi-zezimboni-eziyinkimbinkimbi.
Uhlu Lokuthenga lwase-Iraq
Nansi ingxenye yalokho i-U.S. elungiselela ukukwenza ukuthengisa ukuya e-Iraq njengamanje:
* 175 M1A1 Abrams amathangi empi amakhulu;
* Izimoto eziyi-15 zokubuyisela ithangi likaHercules (awukwazi ukuba nethangi ngaphandle kweloli lokudonsa);
* Izinhlamvu ezingu-55,000 zezibhamu ezinkulu zamathangi (izinhlamvu ezidingekayo ukuze uthole isibhamu esikhulu kakhulu semali yakho)
Futhi izobiza malini zonke lezi ziqhumane? Ngaphansi nje $ 3 billion.
Khumbula ukuthi lezi ukuthengiswa kwakamuva okuhlongozwayo kuphela uma kukhulunywa ngamathangi. NgoJulayi, isibonelo, iGeneral Dynamics ithole i $ 65.3 million inkontileka yokusekela uhlelo olukhona lwe-Iraq M1A1 Abrams. Ngo-Okthoba, i-U.S. yagunyaza ukuthengiswa kwe $ 600 million ngezinhlamvu zethangi le-M1 eziya kulelo zwe. Kuphinde kwaba nokudayiswa kwazo zonke izinhlobo zezinye izikhali, kusukela $ 579 million ukubaluleka Humvees kanye $600 million kuma-Howitzers namaloli ukuze $ 700 million ukubaluleka kwemicibisholo yesiHogo somlilo. Ziningi ezinye izibonelo. Ibhizinisi lihle.
Ngenkathi ukuwa kwebutho lase-Iraqi kanye nokushiywa kwezinqwaba zezikhali zayo zaseMelika, okuhlanganisa okungenani 40 m1s, kumaphekula e-IS, asize ekudaleni leli thuba lebhizinisi elisha labenzi bezikhali njengeGeneral Dynamics, uhlelo lokuthola imali nge-Iraq lungalandelelwa emuva emsebenzini weMelika walelo zwe. Phambili I-Base Hammer, lapho zombili ziyimfihlo Chelsea Manning (uqoqa izintambo zoMnyango Wezwe we-WikiLeaks) kanye nami (ophethe uMnyango Wezwe nokwakha kabusha imizamo) yahlala isikhathi esingangonyaka noma ngaphezulu, yakhiwa ngaphesheya komgwaqo I-Besmaya Firing Range. Lezo zizathu zokuhlola zazingafakwanga e-US kuphela ukudubula bukhoma kwezikhali, kodwa - ukuqagele - amathangi e-M1. Kwakuzoba yingxenye yepayipi elalizogcina uhlelo lwezikhali ezibizayo oluya e-Iraq unomphela. Ngo-2011, njengoba amasosha ase-US ephuma ezweni, zombili lezi zikhungo โzaphiwaโ ama-Iraqis ukuthi asebenze njengesisekelo sezinto zokuqeqeshwa, kanye nokulungiswa kwezikhali ezithengiswa e-US.
Njengoba ngibhala lokhu, osonkontileka baseMelika basahlala ezinsalela zeHammer, besekela ukusetshenziswa kwebutho lase-Iraq lanoma yimaphi amathangi e-M1 abangawanikelanga ku-Islamic State. Kusonkontileka indawo yokuhlola umsebenzi, "ibhalansi yomsebenzi / impilo yokuphila" esisekelweni ithola izinkanyezi ezingu-3.5 ezamukelekayo kulabo abasebenza lapho futhi umqeqeshi oyedwa waseMelika uze ancome iqiniso lokuthi umsebenzi uqala futhi uphele ngaphambi kokushisa kosuku (ngisho noma omunye ekhononda ngokuthi izindlu zangasese ezitholakalayo kuphela namanje ama-port-a-potties).
Ukuthengiswa kwamathangi amasha e-Iraq, vele, kuzokwenza i-Besmaya ijabule futhi ibaluleke ngokwanele iMotley Fool, iwebhusayithi yezeluleko zokutshalwa kwezimali, inikeza lolu lwazi lwangemuva:
โLokhu kungaphezu nje kokuthengisa kanye nenzuzo yeGeneral Dynamics. Njengamanje, i-U.S. Army inawo wonke amathangi e-M1A1 ewadingayo... Ngonyaka odlule, iGeneral Dynamics yacela ngempumelelo iCongress ukuthi inikeze amaRandi ayizigidi ezingu-120 ukuze kuthuthukiswe amathangi e-Abrams, ukuze nje kuqinisekiswe ukuthi ifekthri ihlala ivuliwe okungenani kancane (futhi igweme ukukhokha izindleko zokuqalisa kabusha. ukukhiqizwa kusuka ku-zero ngokuhamba kwesikhathi). Ngo-2012, umqondo ofanayo wabangela ukuba iCongress ichithe imali elinganiselwa ezigidini ezingu-180 zamarandi emathangini, naphezu kokuthi iNhloko Yezempi Yabasebenzi uGeneral Ray Odierno yatshela abenzi bomthetho ngaleso sikhathi: '...lawa amathangi engeziwe esingawadingi.' Ngenhlanhla ngeGeneral Dynamics, nakuba kunjalo , i-Iraq iyawadinga amathangi. Futhi ngezinga lokukhiqiza lakamuva lemboni yaseLima lamathangi ayi-10 ngenyanga, i-oda lase-Iraq kufanele ligcine ibhizinisi lamathangi leGeneral Dynamics liqhubeka kahle ku-2016.
Ingabe Ungathanda Iwaranti Eyeluliwe?
Ama-Iraqi anesisho esithi: "Iragi ayithengiswa." Kusho ukuthi kuhlale kunemali eningi okumele yenziwe kunoma yikuphi ukuthengiselana. IGeneral Dynamics ingavuma. Ukuthengiswa kwezikhali kusebenza ngendlela emangalisayo njengama-electronics abathengi (nokhaphethi base-Iraqi). Ufuna iwaranti enwetshiwe ye-smartphone yakho entsha? Ibhethri elengeziwe? Izesekeli? Umshwalense ngokumelene nokulahlekelwa noma umonakalo? Ngokushesha izindleko zefoni yakho ziphindwe kabili.
Kuyafana nakumathangi. I-M1 iyisilwane esiyinkimbinkimbi. Uzodinga ukukhokhela iGeneral Dynamics ukuze abaqeqeshi bafundise abafana bakho ukusebenzisa amasistimu ayo. Uzodinga izingxenye eziningi eziyisipele, ikakhulukazi ezisebenza ogwadule. Futhi ngeke kuthathe isikhathi eside ngaphambi kokuthi ufune ukwenza ezinye izithuthukisi - mhlawumbe amakhompyutha angcono noma injini esheshayo. I-US njengamanje isebenza "ngempi yasemadolobheni" ukuthuthukiswa kuma-M140 angu-1 ama-Iraqis abambelele kuwo. Emhlabeni wezokuvikela, lokhu kuthengiswa kwangemva kokuthengisa kwaziwa ngokuthi โumsila.โ Futhi uma umsila umude, inzuzo iba nkulu.
Isibonelo, eyakhelwe kunkontileka yokudayiswa kwethangi elisha le-M1 yi ukuhlinzekwa ukuthi "cishe abamele uHulumeni wase-US abahlanu kanye nabamele osonkontileka abayikhulu [bazo]hambela e-Iraq isikhathi esingafika eminyakeni emihlanu ukuze balethelwe impahla, bakhokhelwe uhlelo, basekele uhlelo, futhi baqeqeshwe." Futhi lokho ngeke kufike kushibhile kwaGeneral Dynamics, noma izisebenzi zikahulumeni ezinhlanu zingase zibe inzuzo ekhokhelwa abakhokhi bentela baseMelika.
Akukho kulokhu okuthinta amandla okuthengiswa okuphindayo. Phela, iningi lamagiya asindayo e-Islamic State livela ezintweni amasosha ase-Iraq azilahlile noma alahleka ngandlela thize ekundizeni kwawo amakhanda emadolobheni asenyakatho yezwe. Futhi khumbula ukuthi wonke amathangi kanye negobolondo i-IS iphuma kuleyo mpahla kusho ibhizinisi elengeziwe le-General Dynamics kanye namafemu afanayo. Ukuthengisa izikhali kuzo zombili izinhlangothi zokungqubuzana kuyibhizinisi elihlakaniphile.
Nokho, izikhali zempi ezinkulu, ezisindayo, kuthatha izinyanga ukwenziwa. Ngakho-ke ngisho ne-oda elisheshayo elifakwe namuhla akusho ukuthi igiya lakho lizofika ngesikhathi salokho okuthenjisiwe kwentwasahlobo. Ngakho-ke kungani ungathengi, noma ube nesiphiwo kuwe, okuthile okungokwangaphambili futhi okulungele ukulethwa ngokushesha? Uma unguhulumeni wase-Iraq, amasosha ase-US asevele ephambi kwakho kulokhu.
Kusukela ngoJuni, i-U.S nokunqwatshelaniswa inqwaba yamagiya aphuma e-Afghanistan eShuaiba, ichweba eKuwait, elungiselela ukuthunyelwa okungenani amanye awo emngceleni aye e-Iraq. Idepho isivele inezimoto ezingu-3,100, ikakhulukazi izimoto ze-Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) ezitholakala yonke indawo ezimpini zaseMelika. Ama-MRAP awusizo ekuvikeleni amasosha kumabhomu aseceleni komgwaqo, okuhlanganisa ne-Explosively Formed Penetrator (I-EFP) izinguqulo ezenziwe e-Iran ezathatha izimpilo zabantu abaningi baseMelika phakathi neMpi yase-Iraq 2.0. Lokho kufanele kususe isisindo ezingqondweni zase-Iraqi.
Enye into engasiza: I-United States isivele inikele 250 Ama-MRAP aya e-Iraq kanye $ 300 million ngezikhali ezinikezwe mahhala nguMnyango Wezokuvikela ngo-2014. Futhi ungakhohlwa: kumthethosivivinywa wokusebenzisa imali yonke iCongress eyaphasiswa ngenyanga edlule $ 1.2 billion ekuqeqeshweni okuzayo namathuluzi e-Iraq. Futhi masingakhohlwa noma wonke lawo mabhomu okudingeka ashintshwe ahlala ejikijelwa e-Iraq yi-U.S. Air Force ngezindleko ezifika kuye. izigidigidi zamarandi nokubala.
Ingabe Amathangi Alungele Okunye Ngaphandle Kwenzuzo?
Ukuze iCongress igunyaze izivumelwano zezikhali ze-DSCA, uMnyango Wezokuvikela kufanele qinisekisa ukuthi "ukuthengiswa okuhlongozwayo kwalezi zinsiza nokusekelwa ngeke kuguqule ibhalansi yezempi eyisisekelo esifundeni." Ngakho-ke amathangi okulwa ne-IS kuzodingeka agunyazwe ngokubhaliwe ukuze angathinti isimo sesifunda.
Noma ngabe ama-Iraqi acabanga ukuthi ayawadinga amathangi, isiqubulo seminyaka eyisishiyagalolunye yaseMelika phakathi ne-Iraq War 2.0 bekufanele sinikeze isifundo sokuthi izikhali ezisindayo azinamsebenzi kanjani ohlotsheni lwempi yasemadolobheni kanye nempi yokulwa nokuvukela umbuso evame ukubonakala ngokumelene nesitha esinjalo. IS. Eqinisweni, izinto ezidingekayo ukuze kugcinwe i-M1 ekulweni empeleni zingabambezela ukuqhubekela phambili, kuyilapho izilwane zensimbi ziyizisulu ezilula kakhulu ezindaweni ezimaphakathi zedolobha laseMpumalanga Ephakathi njenge-Mosul.
Mhlawumbe, ekugcineni, amanye alawo ma-M1 azofika ngisho ezandleni zama-Iran, uma kubhekwa indima eqinile edlalwa yizwe kule mpi yamanje yase-Iraq. Ubuchwepheshe bezempi obuphambili baseMelika, ngamanye amazwi, bungathola indlela yabo ezandleni zabantu abangakwazi ukwenza ubunjiniyela obuhlehla kancane bokumbiwa kwezobuchwepheshe bamasosha ase-Iran noma ukuthengisa emakethe yomhlaba. Kubonakala sengathi i-Baghdad isivele ikhona Ukwabelana ezinye izikhali ezihlinzekwe yi-U.S. namasosha aseShia agqugquzelwe yi-Iranian, pho kungani kungenjalo amathangi?
Ake sikubeke ngale ndlela: kunoma yimuphi umbono ngaphandle kweGeneral Dynamics, Islamic State, noma mhlawumbe ama-Irani, lokhu kuthengiswa kwamathangi akuhlangani.
Shayela Umthengisi wakho
Kulula ngokwanele ukujikijela amagama afana nokuthi "inkimbinkimbi yezempi yezimboni" futhi kulula ngokulinganayo ukushelela ukusuka lapho uye kulokho abanye abangakubheka njengemibono yetulo legazi ngowoyela noma iziphakamiso zokuthi i-Iraq War 2.0 yayimayelana nesisekelo sosonkontileka omkhulu i-Halliburton. Ngenkathi uwoyela kanye neHalliburton bekuyingxenye yaleyo zibalo zempi edlule, abasakwazi ukukulandisa njengoba inqwaba yemali iGeneral Dynamics isizokwenza ukuthengisa amathangi kube yedwa i-Iraq War 3.0.
Noma kunjalo, kunzima ukungayinaki indlela izinkampani zezokuvikela ezizithola zingcwatshwa ngayo imali ngenxa yokuthengisa izikhali ezingadingeki kubantu abangakwazi ukuzisebenzisa, ukuthengisa okungenzeka, ekugcineni, ukulimaza, hhayi ukusiza, izithakazelo zezwe laseMelika. . Mhlawumbe kungcono ukubona inzuzo esheshayo evela kumadili anjalo njengengxenye yokuningi inqubo enkulu, enye efuna iMelika ibe nezitha okumele ilwe nazo ukuze kuqinisekiswe ukusinda kombuso wezokuphepha kuzwelonke.
Kuleyo "paradigm yesikhathi sempi" umuntu udinga nje ukuxhuma abantu ababi abasha ngezikhathi ezithile, okufakazela ibhizinisi elilula njalo, njengoba izimpi zethu zangaphambilini nezingxabano zibonakala zinikeza isandla esiwusizo ngokumangazayo. ukuzidala. Ngale ndlela, i-Radical Islam ifakazele, ngosizo lukaWashington, umlandeli ofanelekayo weSoviet Union, yona kanye eyake yaba ibhizinisi elihle kakhulu lokwenza imali nendlela enhle yokwakha izwe elikhulu lezokuphepha lezwe.
Ngisho noma abaphathi baka-Obama bekhubeka futhi begxamalaza befuna isu lepolitiki elinomlingo e-Iraq elingenza umqondo wayo yonke into, abenzi bezikhali baseMelika bangalindela ikusasa eliqhakazile. Okwamanje, iWashington ibeka amandla okuthi, ngokwenza okuningi okufanayo okwesithathu e-Iraq ehlakazekayo phakathi nendawo ephukile, iqinisekise okufanayo. Ngalowo mqondo, ungase uthi amabutho aseMelika ngokwengxenye asendaweni ukusiza ukukhuthaza ukutshalwa kwezimali. Uma umuntu edinga isibonelo sokuthi inkimbinkimbi yezempi-yezimboni isebenza kanjani namuhla, kungaba njalo. Lonke iphutha elenziwa yiWashington liyisibusiso ekuthengisweni kwezikhali esikhathini esizayo.
Ngakho-ke uma unemali yokutshala kuGeneral Dynamics, ungafuna ukushayela umthengisi wakho ucingo.
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