For how long will the war in Iraq be lasting? Will American and the British have subdued the resistance of the Iraqi army during a month as their leadership supposed? What would be the aftermath of the applied force if military actions are dragging on?
Today not only analyst and politologist put these questions. They sound practically every day in the reports of world informational agencies highlighting the course of the war. Judging by the manner the event in the theatre of military actions are developing there are no hopes for a soon termination of the war in the Middle East. Moreover, the growing world protest against the USA and Great Britain policies, enhancing toll of human lives carried away, peaceful civilians inclusive, arrival of a large group of volunteers who took the Iraqi army side being ready to die at any moment, severe condemnation of the anti-Iraqi coalition estimated as aggression versus the sovereign state by the Arab states League can be a warning which should be interpreted this way: in case they linger and no end of the war will be seen other countries and peoples may join in it. And there have been distributing symptoms already. These may be Palestine and Syria if they believe one can withstand the USA and Great Britain, Israel with Turkey which are kept from plunging into this war only by the USA authority. The first ten days of the war showed that the American and British military had undervalued obviously their own forces. The unassailable American military technique turned out mot to be so invulnerable as it was imagined by many. And the stake for superpointed strikes does not justify itself either. Quite the contrary, the Iraqi army predicted to have been defeated rapidly turned out to be fairly trained and staunch. As before it doesn’t surrender in its big strategically important populated units. And what if street battles begin? Who will take the upper hand then? Who will suffer heavier losses in this war? It is difficult to foresee such things. But one thing is still clear. In order to capture Iraqi cities and towns one will have to collide with their defenders. In such situation much will depend on the moral spirit of military men. At the same time the fanatism inherent in Muslims can’t be laid out of accounts either.