London, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) Since the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has become increasingly difficult for the United States to find allies able to follow it into new invasions, according to a British research institute.
The current situation in those occupied nations works against the willingness of other countries to participate in new military actions, London’s International Strategic Study Institute director John Chipman explained.
Even if the Pentagon increases its counterintelligence techniques and improves coordination of analysis on civil and military issues in complicated situations, it will be difficult for it to recruit allies for long campaigns, he stated.
The United States attacked Afghanistan in October 2001, with the pretext of capturing Osama Bin Laden, whom it accused of organizing the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York.
US and British troops unilaterally attacked Iraq in March 2003, without UN authorization, with the supposed purpose of seizing weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.
Prince Andrew, third child of Queen Elizabeth II and fourth in succession to the royal throne, criticized the White House for ignoring advice and attacking the Persian Gulf nation almost five years ago.
The also Duke of York, aged 47, broke with royal protocol, prohibiting comments on this kind of issue, and said yesterday the United States had never learned the lessons of the British colonial past.