High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
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Ya know I think we should set up shop in Iraq. No soldier believed we would be out by the end of the year. Now Iran is testing missles and getting bolder as it believes the US presence is close to dwindeling. Saying it can reach our battleships. Oh to be so bold there must be a plan. We should take some of our funded bases out of Europe and place them in Iraq allowing a close presence at all times.
How are US bases in Iraq going to prevent the Iranians from developing weapons? unless you go into Iran and physically stop them, they will keep developing.
Indeed, however setting up bases in Iraq shows a commitment to the middle east. The people over here want us to be here but if they take our side and we leave then they are defenseless so they strattle the fence just in case we leave and they need a new loyalty. If we show them we are here to see change through then change will come. Iran is sending fighters and weapons into Iraq trying to influence local governments and convince them they can not only help but defeat any who oppose them ie. the threat that missles can reach America.
You are in Iraq so maybe you can answer this, do the Iraqis really want a pro longed US Presence in their country? I don't mind the US being there if they are wanted however I keep hearing reports about the Iraqis wanting us to leave, the Mahdi Army going into full attack mode if we stay, and that insurgent attacks and mortar strikes have increased as the US makes their presence even smaller, boldening insurgents. If we go down to a force of only 10,000 US Troops in Iraq the insurgents will up the anti even more, putting our troops in grave risk.