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The U.S. military has a lot more people in Iraq than it has been saying

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The U.S. military has around 5,000 service members in Iraq, officials said on Monday, far more than previously reported, as the Obama administration quietly expands ground operations against the Islamic State.The number of American forces in Iraq has come under increased scrutiny following the death over the weekend of a Marine staff sergeant, the second combat casualty in renewed U.S. operations in Iraq. He was killed when militants launched rockets at a small U.S. base around the city of Makhmour. The existence of the Marine detachment had not been known prior to Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin’s death.
Officials at the Pentagon have declined to specify how Marines are serving at the outpost in northern Iraq, which they described as a satellite base positioned to protect American trainers at a nearby, larger base. Their presence in Iraq highlights the use of forces from Navy ships already in the Middle East.
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Back to being the policemen of Iraq, continuing the unwinable "war on terror"
 
Captain Adverse said:
We should have been out of there years ago. Didn't Obama promise during his first campaign to bring our troops home within 16 months?

That's one of the reasons I voted for him back then..."Yes, we can!" :(
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Yup. He originally said he would within 16 months of himself assuming office.
 
Sherman123 said:
Really? Good! I'm glad we're starting to take this seriously.
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Number of troops deployed in a region indicates if how serious we are taking the issue? Why is that the variable that indicates this?
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Is this a good thing?
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Depends. Libya is turning into an ISIL bolthole. UK has troops there, as trainers. The situation in Libya was the result of going in then getting out.
Would you, if you were a leader in the EU want an ISIL sub State just across the pond?
Libya is tribal, they all want ore of the revenues from oil-gas.
They cannot stand up to ISIL. Which has quickly expanded their territory.
So with other countries, yes we will see more of this.
Look at Somalia. Same thing, under the UN.
 
JANFU said:
Depends. Libya is turning into an ISIL bolthole. UK has troops there, as trainers. The situation in Libya was the result of going in then getting out.
Would you, if you were a leader in the EU want an ISIL sub State just across the pond?
Libya is tribal, they all want ore of the revenues from oil-gas.
They cannot stand up to ISIL. Which has quickly expanded their territory.
So with other countries, yes we will see more of this.
Look at Somalia. Same thing, under the UN.
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Tell me... EU is also responsible for this mess in Libya.. Right?
 
JANFU said:
Depends. Libya is turning into an ISIL bolthole. UK has troops there, as trainers. The situation in Libya was the result of going in then getting out.
Would you, if you were a leader in the EU want an ISIL sub State just across the pond?
Libya is tribal, they all want ore of the revenues from oil-gas.
They cannot stand up to ISIL. Which has quickly expanded their territory.
So with other countries, yes we will see more of this.
Look at Somalia. Same thing, under the UN.
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ISIS in Libya is still limited to Sirte basin, they got thrown out of Derna.

Oil industry is a mess -down to 335 bpday for lac k of security and maintenance

Recall Libya now has 3 governments (Tripoli /Tobruk and the UN 'Unity' in Tunisia which can't land in Tripoli)
- 4 if you count ISIS :shock:
The SAS is news -but there is no appetite in Libya for any western interventions now.

Oh.the situation was a result of going in /there was never chance we would stay and "build democracy"
as the interventionist like to say.
No way was the west gonna commit manpower to re-building Libya after we destroyed it.
 
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Captain Adverse said:
We should have been out of there years ago. Didn't Obama promise during his first campaign to bring our troops home within 16 months?

That's one of the reasons I voted for him back then..."Yes, we can!" :(
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Uh huh. We should just sit back and let ISIS run around all over the place, flowing from conflict to conflict and slaughtering people wherever they go. After all, isolationism worked so well the last time it was attempted, right? Oh, wait......
 
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