Col Sean Ryan, a spokesman for the US-led coalition in Iraq, says that US troops are intending to remain in Iraq “as long as we think they’re needed.” He says this is vital to the stabilization efforts in post-ISIS Iraq.
This is in keeping with other comments out of the Pentagon, where officials more or less uniformly envision a permanent US military presence in Iraq, and have not been shy in saying so. President Trump, however, disagrees, and has said he’s keen to withdraw troops once ISIS is defeated.
It’s not unusual for President Trump not to see eye to eye with the military brass on long-term troop deployments. Iraq seems to be unusual, in that instead of openly disagreeing with the president, the Pentagon’s comments appear to totally discount his opinion, and present their own plans as a foregone conclusion.
Col. Ryan said it was possible there could be some minor drawdowns of US troops from Iraq in the future, and that even this would depend heavily on the rest of NATO committing substantial numbers of troops to Iraq for training operations.
Hmm… Not one word about what the Iraqis think about this? What imperial arrogance. Same with Afghanistan. Same with Syria.
The Afghans have seen and had more than enough of America.
But of course ISIS will NEVER be defeated. It’s like trying to kill all the mosquitos at a summer bar b que.
And yet we spray for mosquitoes.
The US isn’t needed in Iraq. Same for Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan and Eritrea.
“We” are always needed when we invade and destroy other countries.
Ten plus million American Tax Payer dollars are gifted to apartheid israel every damn day. Millions more $’s are wasted daily to stay in Iraq, Syria and other places were we are not welcome or wanted. Millions of $’s are flushed down the drain daily to play war in Afghan and here, there and where ever. The United States misgovernment wastes millions more to pseudo-science experiments such as one to find out how long shrimp can run on a treadmill, another to find out if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior, and many other stupid such BS.
The U.S. so called government spends 25 billion dollars a year to maintain unused vacant federal buildings.
The U.S. military spent “$998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.
The U.S. government spent $27 million to teach Moroccans how to design and make pottery in 2012.
The Department of Agriculture spent $2 million to fund an internship program, then the program hired one full-time intern.
The National Institutes of Health has given $1.5 million to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to study why “three-quarters” of lesbians in the United States are overweight and why most gay males are not. They also paid researchers $400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk. And let’s not forget the $592,527 they spent on a study to figure out why chimpanzees throw poop.
They gave 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly.
Approximately $5.25 million has been spent on hair care services for U.S. Senate critters.
And I could fill many pages with lists of unnecessary squandering wastefulness by the non-functioning entity pretending to be a government of the people.
All of this while Veterans such as myself struggle to get adequate medical care from the Veterans Administration. I now have stage 4 cancer because the VA failed to take simple but necessary medical procedures such as in my case, a skin biopsy. Had they done so a year ago when my legs were covered in huge blisters and deep open runny sores, I could have been cured by now instead of dying.