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(回答先: 英陸軍元司令官、米国のイラク侵攻後の政策を批判【AFPBB News】 投稿者 たけ(tk) 日時 2007 年 9 月 03 日 12:34:09)
同じ将軍の記事は英紙テレグラフの9月1日付（電子版）にも掲載されている。
先の英陸軍参謀長、マイク・ジャクソン将軍がずばりとアメリカのイラク戦争政策を批判し、アメリカからの非難攻撃の矢面に立っている。
デイリー・テレグラフ紙が同氏の回顧録（メモワール）出版に先だってジャクソン将軍に取材し、将軍がアメリカのイラク政策や軍事偏重のテロ対策を厳しく批判していることが明らかとなった。
特にラムズフェルド前国防長官については、「知的破産者であり、イラクの現状についてもっとも責任を取らなければならない者のうちの一人だ」と指摘し、ラムズフェルドは「アメリカ軍による国家建設への関与を馬鹿げている」として否定した、と述べている。
ジャクソン将軍は、サダム体制を崩壊させた後にイラク軍を解体したペンタゴンの決定も「非常に近視眼的な処置だった」とし、そのため国務省が戦後のために遂行しようとしたあらゆる計画が無意味となったと批判した。
将軍はまた、アメリカのテロ対策を「不十分だ」とし、国家建設や外交よりも軍事行動に偏重しすぎていると、切り捨てた。
こうしたジャクソン将軍のアメリカ政府批判に対して、微妙な段階にある米英関係を損なうもので、「ジャクソン将軍の論評は無責任で無益きわまりないもの」とするワシントンの識者からの憤激の声もあがっている。
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/01/wirq501.xml
Gen Sir Mike Jackson's attack draws US ire
By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 12:17am BST 02/09/2007
General Sir Mike Jackson, the former head of the British Army, has come under fire from America for his outspoken criticism of the US handling of the war in Iraq.
One of Washington's leading commentators on the transatlantic alliance warned that Gen Jackson's denunciation of the US government would damage the special relationship at a highly sensitive moment.
In an interview ahead of the serialisation of his memoirs in the Daily Telegraph from Monday, Genl Jackson said the approach taken by former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was “intellectually bankrupt” and “one of those most responsible for the current situation in Iraq”.
He described Mr Rumsfeld's insistence that US forces "don't do nation-building" as "nonsensical".
Gen Jackson said the Pentagon decision to disband the Iraqi army after Saddam's overthrow was "very short-sighted" and meant "all the planning carried out by the State Department" for the post-war period "went to waste".
The general, who retired last year as chief of the general staff, went on to dismiss the entire American approach to tackling terrorism as "inadequate", branding it too reliant on military action rather than nation-building and diplomacy.
But Nile Gardiner, the British-born director of the Margaret Thatcher Centre of Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said: "General Jackson's remarks will be viewed in Washington as irresponsible and deeply unhelpful."
Dr Gardiner, who has close links to the White House and Pentagon, added: "They will strain Anglo-American relations at a critical time when the US and UK are waging major campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, and will only serve to undermine morale.
"Jackson seems to forget that Britain and the United States are still engaged in a global war, and this kind of highly public attack undermines the special relationship."
He said that Gen Jackson's condemnation of American strategy in the war on terrorism came close to "political comment", inappropriate for a general.
The Ministry of Defence in London and the Pentagon have clashed repeatedly over war strategy since the invasion in 2003.
But Gen Jackson's memoirs are a new salvo in a war of words between military spokesmen on both sides of the Atlantic that has dramatically gathered momentum since Gordon Brown made his first trip to Washington as prime minister in July. In Washington, Mr Brown made clear his determination to withdraw troops from Iraq .
In interviews with The Sunday Telegraph, the two architects of the US surge strategy, General Jack Keane and Frederick Kagan, both advisers to President George W Bush, have condemned what they see as the deteriorating security situation in Basra.
Even American commentators not usually disposed to support Mr Bush's Iraq strategy, like Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings institution, believe Britain's reputation for excellence in counter-insurgency warfare has been critically undermined by the continuing widespread violence between Shia militias.
Stung by the criticism, Britain's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and Defence Secretary, Des Browne, jointly wrote an article for Friday's Washington Post defending the performance of British troops.
Gen Jackson also dismissed US criticism of the British performance in Basra, saying: "I don't think that's a fair assessment at all."
General Keane has so far refused to respond to Gen Jackson's comments.
"I'm not going to be drawn into a fight among retired generals or other verbal gymnastics," he said.
The debate over military tactics in Iraq and the speed of any troop withdrawal are potentially embarrassing for both Mr Bush and Mr Brown.
The prime minister is under pressure from the White House to retain some troops around Basra, to alleviate the need to send extra American troops to replace them.
Mr Bush is himself under pressure from Congress to signal a drawdown in forces when his Iraq commander David Petraeus reports back to Congress later this month.
The Pentagon also declined to comment on General Jackson's views.
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