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Publish date24 Dec 2011 - 9:24
Story Code : 76225
Former U.S. undersecretary for political affairs

Iraq blew the American power

TNA - Beirut
'The war in Iraq was a strategic miscalculation and the single greatest blow to American power and prestige since Vietnam,' underscored Nicholas Burns, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs.
Iraq blew the American power

'I supported the initial invasion in 2003 while serving as US ambassador to NATO, but have since been convinced that any good from it was far outweighed by the sacrifices of our soldiers and the significant damage to our international credibility,'' added Burns in an article published in International Herlad Tribune Edition.

Ambassador Burns, professor of diplomacy and international politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, asserted that 'the human cost of war' shouldn't be forgotten', where the USA lost 4550 of its soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi, not to mention a cost close to 1 trillion US Dollars.

Burns pointed out that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have 'tied us down for 10 years and deflected our attention from the far more important challenge of China's threat to the US power worldwide'.

Ambassador Burns asserted that wars can 'backfire as it surely did in Iraq' calling on his country for a return to ' a smarter foreign policy' through the application of ' diplomacy rather than excessive reliance on the force arms'.

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