Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder Abadi says he believes that the Iraqi Army is going to need wholesale rebuilding and restructuring after its defeat at the hands of ISIS in 2014, and predicted this would take three years.
“The most difficult thing is to restructure and build the army while you are in a state of war,” Abadi said, saying he aims to create a balance between revamping the military and continuing the war against ISIS.
Abadi sought to downplay his three year reconstruction prediction, saying he didn’t think that the war against ISIS would last that long, and that reform would continue after the war.
That seems extremely optimistic, as even with the US and other nations joining the war to “save” Iraq they haven’t regained significant territory from ISIS in the past several months, and US officials have talked this up as another protracted war last many years.
Only three years?
I suspect he means it will take 3 years for his section of Iraq to afford the hardware offered by… you know who.
I'm assuming Abadi is also saying privately to the USG that the cost of this training and rebuilding will be provided by the American taxpayers.
So the billions of dollars already sunk into this hell hole were squandered, and now we're going to actually hand over more?
Long live greed — Long live our war economy
For only one reason do the leaders of NATO nations predict that the war will long endure, they know that the vengeance driving this war will long endure. Namely, NATO blowing up bombs to trade bombs for oil, surely such greed will long endure.
Hey we aren't paying for that again!
What a scam.