(September 16, 2017 at 12:54 pm)Khemikal Wrote: At the lowest cost in blood and treasure we can achieve. We need to improve our method, in these regions...obviously. Pulling out before the job is done doesn't save a dime or a pint of blood, it just floats the bill a few years down the road. It's not a coincidence that we're back in Iraq.
Well, that presumes that we will go back in. We aren't, however, "back in Iraq". We never left the place. Yes, we've seen casualties go down very much.
I suspect that whenever we actually leave, it's going to go right to shit again, given the synthetic nature of its founding. We're even seeing that right now with the Kurds moving forward on their referendum even as Baghdad threatens action in the event it passes -- and that's with us there. We're about to be in a position where we will either abandon the government so many GIs died in the process of creating, or playing support in a shooting war with the only ethnic group that has co-operated with us.
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