Originally Posted by Rochard

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.