01-19-2017, 08:44 PM
(01-19-2017, 06:37 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Is he the Commander in Chief or not? He absolutely has the power to change it based on Intel... oops Forgot he wasn't paying attention to those reports. Oh well never mind.
I understand about point 2, but if intel thinks they are not ready, then they are not ready.
Now with that understood, if the "insurgents" were busy taking over cities like oncemore was telling us, then we should've known that there was still a threat to the new Leadership and that they were not ready to handle that group.
Didn't one of the Generals advise that we leave at least 35k behind instead of pulling them all out?
He even stated that there were options and that they didn't have to leave if they didn't want to. Neither Bush nor Obama had much of an after war plan. If we are going to do something like this, we have to finish it and see it thru.
We knew they weren't ready. Why do you think we were trying to negotiate a new status of forces agreement to delay the withdrawal of troops? Because we knew they weren't ready. Duh. Now, how can you force a sovereign government to sign an agreement to maintain foreign troops in their country against their wishes? You can't. Obviously.
(01-19-2017, 06:54 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: You're gonna have to be more specific. All I see is cities that were taken by the insurgents after 2014 or how we drove them out of cities back in 2007 with a handful of bombings and mostly the setting up of a democracy in between those 2 dates.
Never heard of Fallujah?
