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Originally Posted by Robbie
Rochard, I would say that IF the U.S. pulls all troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and doesn't rush to their aid...they would both be overthrown within a month or two.
The Taliban is already back in every part of Afghanistan that U.S. military doesn't have a presence.
And ISIS damn near conquered all of Iraq until we went back in there and started bombing like crazy.
I have to agree with Paul on this one. The power brokers in Washington D.C. don't give a damn about "freedom" or "national security interests" (which is just code for invading any country we want to)....they are interested in power.
We have no business bombing, invading, or putting "sanctions" on any sovereign nation in time of peace.
I know it all sounds like a good idea.
But the track record since WW2 of dead people and ruined country's is really, really bad.
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I disagree.
The United States has about four thousand US troops in Iraq, and has for the past few years. This is mostly for air support, training, and defense. It's Iraqi forces taking on ISIS directly, not US troops.
Here is a good example:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/w...tate.html?_r=0
We also have 8k toops in Afghanistan, but again these are mostly for air support, training, and defense.
To put this in perspective, the US has 40k troops in Germany, 50k troops in Japan, and 28k in South Korea.
You are making it out so that we these countries would fall apart without support from US troops, which is not true. We have a very small amount of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they are not really engaged in combat.