Friday, February 24, 2017

America's Top Military Officer Says the US is Mulling a "Long-Term Commitment" in Iraq



Of course it is under consideration, Trump is a major league global authoritarian.

Libertarian Trump fanboys who hold the view that Trump is going to shrink the U.S. military presence overseas are about to get kicked in the face by Trump's hard-ass boot.

CNN reports:
The US military is contemplating a long-term presence in Iraq to stabilize the country after the anticipated defeat ISIS, America's top military officer said Thursday.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford said that both the US and NATO have begun discussions with Iraq about the possibility.
"We have, as has NATO, begun a dialogue about a long term commitment to grow the capacity, maintain the capacity of Iraqi Security Forces, but no decisions have been made yet," Dunford told an audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington, his first time fielding questions since the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
"Iraq has begun to speak, and you've heard Prime Minister (Haider) Abadi speak, about the international community continuing to support defense capacity building," he added.

    -RW

2 comments:

  1. It's 6:04 p.m. and this was posted almost six hours ago...

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    Amazing how quickly people were to jump all over you for doubting the Man in Orange.

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  2. This would fall in line with Trump's "We might a second chance to take the oil" quote he made awhile back.

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