“We have the people we need. We have the training that we need. We have the equipment that we need to fight and win," Lt Colonel Omar Minott, who is among the 1,500 to be deployed, said.
Oh, so it’s completely different this time around. They’ve got it figured out now, everyone.
3rd time’s the charm!
Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.
burger empire never learns
It is also more proof that their past involvements and deployments in Iraq were failures. They replaced a secular Sunni dictator who hated Iran and Israel, with a Shia dominated government that is friendly to Iran and hates Israel. The problem is we keep delivering the US tactical, political and strategic defeats but not a resounding military defeat. Which is why they keep coming back. Losing 2 trillion dollars isn’t much if you print them out of thin air. But they can’t print an aircraft carrier, if only Iran could somehow get its hands on Chinese anti-carrier missiles.
The problem US has now though is that they sent much of what they had to Ukraine over the past two years. US manufacturing base is simply not able to keep up with the scale of the conflict, and so US has been steadily draining existing stocks. Last year it got to the point where US had to plunder shell stocks in Japan, Korea, and Israel. If a serious conflict flares up in the Middle East then US is going to be caught with pants down.
The US really can’t leave Iraq and Syria alone. The Iraqi and Syrian resistance are justified.
Biden seems to be doing what he claims he doesn’t want. This will turn into a regional war, I’m hopeful we can deliver the US a resounding defeat so that it can leave us alone. This is annoying and unwelcomed.
Let the fun begin again!
It wouldn’t be a democrat administration without them sending their military to do war crimes in the middle east.
Again!!!one!!
I’m probably gonna get hate for this, but I think our presence in Syria (and too a far lesser degree in Iraq, specifically Sinjar and Iraqi Kurdistan) is completely justified. Not only is the revolution in North and East Syria/Rojava incredibly hopeful as a new stable and egalitarian Middle Eastern democracy, let alone it having some policy positions more radically egalitarian than most of Europe, but our actions in Syria and Sinjar have been some of the few almost unadulteratedly good military actions of my lifetime.
Between us and the YBS, we stopped a genocide in Sinjar, and im glad we’ll be there to stop one again if ISIS ever resurfaces like it’s currently trying to.
I’m probably gonna get hate for this, but I think our presence in Syria (and too a far lesser degree in Iraq, specifically Sinjar and Iraqi Kurdistan) is completely justified.
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Quick question, based on that logic you must also feel that Russia’s presence in Ukraine is completely justified too?
This is the same ISIS that attacked Iran for being “Jewish”, right?
Yes, I don’t think I alluded anywhere in my comment to them being reasonable.
I’d say I alluded to quite the opposite by saying even the often war crime friendly US army is justified in keeping ISIS from having any territory every again.
