Two American soldiers and one British soldier were killed Wednesday evening when 15 small Katyusha rockets hit Iraq’s Camp Taji. The Pentagon reported 10 other people of various nationalities were wounded.
Details are still emerging, with the US quickly dismissing the idea that this was an ISIS attack by doubting they had the capability, even though Katyusha rockets are virtually ubiquitous among Middle Eastern armed factions.
Instead, officials say they suspect Shi’ite militias in general, and Kataib Hezbollah in particular. The militia is part of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) of Iraq, whose leader was killed in a January US airstrike in Baghdad.
That’s certainly a motive, but it may be wishful thinking for the US officials, as Kataib Hezbollah would be a culprit allowing the US to maintain the same general hostility toward Shi’ite militias. In practice, the US has a lot of potential enemies in the region, and this could be almost any of them.
“The US has lots of potential enemies in the region”
So why on earth do they not go home to America? They are not wanted in Iraq and have been asked to leave. So why do they stay?
Israel.
$$$$$$$$$$$ … and Israel.
Trouble is it’s our $$$$$$$$$.
Here’s an equation: 0 soldiers in Iraq = 0 soldiers coming home in body bags. Eighteen years for what?
So complicated…..they have enemies there because they ARE there. What to do, what to do….
The situation in Iraq and Syria changes by the day. Trump says we’re there to grab the oil. That’s getting to be some pretty expensive oil when you figure in the cost of maintaining US troops in an area where absolutely none of the locals want them there and keep taking potshots at them.