Iraq needs the US

The conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes about the security situation in Iraq following Wednesday's wave of attacks: "The seven obviously coordinated attacks on the capital Baghdad which claimed dozens of victims have rudely dashed any hopes that the Iraqi security forces would be able to ensure peace and security on their own. The country has not really become any safer since the Americans withdrew from the cities to their bases. … Some Iraqis are apparently acting as if the Americans had left the country entirely, as if the occupation had ended. But this won't be the case until next August at the earliest, and the withdrawal won't be completed until 2012. But as Wednesday's bloodbath in Baghdad proves, by then the Iraqis will have had to fall back on the skills of the Americans more than many want to, whether they like it or not."

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