Bye Bye, Donald Trump ....
Biden’s Pentagon ‘Open’ To Increasing Troop Levels In Iraq
The Pentagon is reportedly open to the possibility of sending more American troops to Iraq in an expanded NATO training mission for Iraqi security forces.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discussed the training mission with his NATO colleagues Thursday, according to CNN. Although an increase in troop levels is on the table, there are no imminent plans for it at the moment, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby clarified Thursday night.
“The US is participating in the force generation process for NATO Mission Iraq and will contribute its fair share to this important expanded mission,” Pentagon spokesperson Jessica L. McNulty said to CNN. The aim of the mission is reportedly to support Iraqi forces in the fight to prevent ISIS from re-emerging as a substantial regional threat.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that NATO’s presence for the mission would jump from about 500 personnel to around 4,000, CNN reported. Austin reportedly “welcomed the expanded role” of NATO in Iraq, and Stoltenberg stressed the importance of keeping ISIS in check. “ISIS is still there. ISIS still operates in Iraq, and we need to make sure that they’re not able to return,” Stoltenberg said.
Stoltenberg also added that the increase in NATO personnel in the country came at the request of the Iraqi government.
An increase in American involvement in Iraq would be a change in direction from policy under former President Donald Trump. Troop levels in the country fell to 2,500 by the end of Trump’s term. Before the transition to the Biden administration, Trump’s acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller said the troop reduction was a sign of success: “The drawdown of US force levels in Iraq is reflective of the increased capabilities of the Iraqi security forces. Our ability to reduce force levels is evidence of real progress.”
Reported by The Daily Caller
My reaction: Strike Fucking One!!
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THIS, folks, is why substance over style
fucking matters.
Maybe Biden, who is who statesmanlike and sensible, can talk Australia into helping out in Iraq.
Come on, Australia! Send your boys!
Your Republi-CON-servative tunnel-vision is clearly showing here. It doesn't matter if there are 4,000 American troops, or 4,000 NATO troops from all over the world, there would still be 4,000 foreign troops occupying the sovereign nation of Iraq. You don't seem to get it.
The US is not welcome in Iraq. The US presence alone is an embarrassment to their culture, their religion, and in the region itself. US soldiers flaunt their excess of everything that the people there don't have(food, water, clothing, wealth, power, freedom, and technology). They demonize, vilify, and denigrate Iraq itself, its people, its culture, and even its religion. Soldiers, drones, bombs, kill people period. Neither can discern between what is in self-defense, what is just murder, who is a terrorists, who is an innocent civilian, or anything about what our in-country objectives and exit strategies are. They simply create more terrorists, more hatred, and more deaths.
Other than America, what rational country in the world would be willing to,
Commit their troops to die in a country that has done absolutely nothing to them?
Commit their troops to fight in a country indefinitely, with no clear objective, other than the attrition of body bags?
Commit troops to battle in an unwinnable war on terrorism, against an unbeatable enemy, and to create a more unstable world?
Commit troops to create more terrorists, every time they kill innocent men, women, and children as collateral damage.
Commit their troops to create the worst refugee crisis that the world has ever known.
Commit their troops to protect all the US DoD's military contracts, and the MIC. The longer the wars, the larger the profits. Remember, as weapons are used, they must be replaced.
I hope Australia would tell America, that they care more about lives, than they do about profits. You will never change peoples beliefs. Especially, when you are murdering their women and children, and shitting all over their beliefs and culture. Especially, while in their own backyard! Surely we have learned something from the Viet Nam war. In that case, America used fear to convinced a world that communism(which never existed) was going to spread all over the world. Now, it is using the fear of Terrorism to ignite another irrational fear.
Australia(or any country) would be a fool to risk the lives of any of its young men indefinitely, just to appear politically correct. America has not made a dint in the Taliban, ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, or any other terrorist organization in over 18 years. Just what does a combined NATO force hope to accomplish? Nothing except more body bags, and more wasted young lives.
Here is a novel idea. Bring all our troops home now. Then we arm everyone who believes we should kick-ass and take-names in Iraq and Afghanistan in fighting terrorists, and then ship their asses over to Iraq and Afghanistan to actually fight. I wonder how long that list would be?