In comments earlier today, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter vowed to continue “fine-tuning” the effort to train and arm Iraqi forces, including both the military and Sunni tribal forces.
Carter made clear that a lot of the effort is going to be toward increasing aid to the Sunnis, and trying to convince the Shi’ite-dominated central government to let the Pentagon directly arm them.
Carter said the goal was to both “hasten and enhance” the training process, which has come into increased focus after Iraqi troops, who had an enormous numerical advantage, were routed by ISIS in Ramadi.
US officials have repeatedly insisted that the problem has been with Iraqi military leadership, however, not with the training of the rank and file, so it’s unclear what this plan will actually change, as ISIS continues to take over much of Anbar Province.
Yeah, that's the way to go. Quickly trained employees, they get the job done, don't they?
The (billions) the USG wasted on (training) Iraqi troops to run for their lives
could have been better spent on (training) our young people here in the USA,
judging from the latest K-12 test scores.
Then again, the last thing the crooks and psychopaths running this corrupt
USG regime, needs is an educated society, capable of seeing through the
BS and subterfuge being shoved down our throat everyday.
Bingo!!!
They're really not interested in training the Iraqis…but they have to say that to make it look like they care. They only want to dump Billions and Billions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of the war machine in order to keep the chaos going and growing.
Who will the warmongers arm when there is no one left to kill?