August 31 marks the end of our combat role in Iraq---Hooray? But 50,000 troops remain behind to "assist in training" the Iraq army and constabulary. It will undoubtedly be necessary for them to engage in combat operations because AL QUEDA and the Taliban will be holding our troops hostage to their desire to bleed and humiliate us. We are assisting them by weakening our fighting capability in the Iraqi theatre. Only a complete withdrawal from Iraq will free
us of that cancer. Iraq must stand on its own feet as a sovereign nation at some point. Playing perpetual cop and nursemaid to them will delay that forever
at enormous cost to us.
In Afghanistan we offer the Taliban a perfect assist. We provide a continuing supply of our valiant troops to be killed and maimed, at little cost to the Taliban. Their
fighters value death more than life so our counter attacks do nothing to dissuade them from continuing the fight. When we leave, Karzai the thief, and his Mafia will
also leave to enjoy their loot from our aid packages. The Taliban will take control
as if our interlude had never happened. That has been and will be the way of it in
that part of the world. Outside conquerors end up as the conquered.
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You are right on target, again.
An even more important question for Americans to ask might be, "Where do we go from here?"
Clearly, we have determined to stick our nose, money and disposable youth into scenarios where we have no insight and nothing to gain but more (negative) notoriety.
So what will our next politically notable deployment mean?
Ethiopia?
No, there is nothing to gain there.
Congo?
No, they already have a thriving economy based on greed and Americans would find that a challenge to our own biases.
Saudi Arabia?
True, they have sponsored nearly every extremist Islamic organization for several years but we must not forget that America established the "United Arab Emerates" for the single reason of protecting our oil supplies... No, that's too daring.
How about Japan, or China, or even South Korea? At least those new targets might give us an edge because none of them would dare fight their largest financial contributor. Any of those venues would be a possible win for Americans but, oh yeah, we will still need to come up with a purpose for our imperial attack. Hmm! What should we say that might actually make us sound like we have some idea of what we are doing?
Five days after President Obama announced the end of US combat operations in Iraq in his national address of Aug 31st, one of our remaining “advise and assist “ brigade was called in combat to repel an attack on the Iraqi army HQ in Bagdad.
Eighteen killed, forty injured – non-US.
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