General McCaffrey: Military in 'strategic peril' in Iraq, 'little time left'

U.S. soldiers of the Delta company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, give first aid to a wounded Iraqi army soldier minutes after a roadside bomb exploded next to their armoured vehicle in Baghdad's northwest Sunni neighbourhood of Ghazaliya today

The Iraq war has left the U.S. military “in a position of strategic peril,” retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey has warned in the wake of a recent trip to Iraq.

“The majority of the Iraqi population [Sunni and Shia] support armed attacks on American forces” while “U.S. domestic support for the war in Iraq has evaporated and will not return,” McCaffrey writes in a memo to colleagues at the U.S. Military Academy, where he is an adjunct professor of international affairs.

He says the United States and its allies must focus on a strategy aimed at a political consensus among the three main Iraqi population groups: Sunni Arabs, Shia Arabs and Kurds.

“We can still achieve our objective” of a stable Iraq, he writes in a memo to colleagues at the U.S. Military Academy, where he is an adjunct professor of international affairs, but “[w]e have very little time left.”

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