Though officials continue to deny that they are intending to launch a ground war in Iraq, they today announced a plan to double the number of US ground troops in Iraq.
Even more troubling, those “advisers” are not going to be simply loitering in Baghdad and Irbil like the previous troops, with some of the troops to be deployed to front line combat zones in Anbar Province.
Gen. Martin Dempsey has been talking up plans to embed the “advisers” into Iraqi combat units, and while they still won’t theoretically be listed as combat troops, the move seems designed primarily to put US troops into combat situations.
ISIS controls at least 80 percent of Anbar. The US has been keen to expand Iraqi ground operations in the province, though ISIS seems like they will be the primary beneficiaries of the embedding, as it will give them opportunities to hit US troops in a way they could not readily do before.
This is how the USG / MIC got us involved in Vietnam. If a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident happens next – ISIS attacks US advisers – don't be surprised.
I wonder if they'll publish the names of those who've been selected to be the sacrificial lambs needed to kickstart the next invasion of Iraq? These "advisors" who are being "embedded" with the Iraqi Army out in the provinces have been deemed expendable. Not only will they be in ISIS territory (or close enough) but they will be surrounded by armed Iraqi soldiers who probably have dim views of what the US have done to their country over the past 11 years. It's going to get dicey having to sleep with one eye open…
Advisers? More like cannonfodder.
A remedy for perpetual war is "A Legal Framework for Just Military Action".
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"The Justice Party is concerned far less about party affiliations than it is with the need to join together to rid our government of the corruption, inclination toward empire-building, and amassing of imperial presidential powers, all of which have resulted in immense injustice—economically, socially, and environmentally—throughout our nation and our world."
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Helping the Middle-East dictators to keep their populations in fearful submission to authority and increasing profit for our war-time economy, this it will surely do, but what good can it possibly accomplish?