{"id":26080,"date":"2011-08-03T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26080"},"modified":"2011-08-03T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:32:43","slug":"troops-may-stay-longer-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26080","title":{"rendered":"Troops may stay longer in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was kind of under the radar – I haven’t seen any blaring headlines about it,anyway- but apparently the Iraqis have asked the US to delay sending some combat troops away, according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Iraqi and U.S. officials cautioned Wednesday that the country\u2019s precarious political and security situation could yet derail efforts to resolve the issue before the roughly 46,000 U.S. troops in Iraq leave as scheduled by Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

Prolonging a final decision could turn the issue into a \u201cphysics problem\u201d for the U.S. military if it is pressed to decide which forces and equipment need to stay too close to year\u2019s end, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t imagine the media keeping this on the down-low if President Bush was still in office. I had to dig to find this article in a tiny little link halfway down the WP’s front page.<\/p>\n

And of course, the amateurs have to weigh in;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need a large combat presence,\u201d said Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. \u201cWe need Special Forces and perhaps some forces who would be effectively combat troops.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the only reason that Special Forces have been so effective in this war is because they aren’t weighed down with all of the day-to-day heavy fighting in which more conventional forces are engaged. Special Forces aren’t meant for convoy security and taking on large enemy elements – they’re a more surgically-applied force. They aren’t a solution to all of Iraq’s problems and these numbnuts need to get that pounded into their thick heads. <\/p>\n

It looks to me like the arm chair generals think they can draw down conventional forces leaving some robot ninja zombies behind and they can shoulder the war because of their larger-than-life reputations. You probably know the stories better than I know about how every time a Special Operations unit fought like conventional forces against a numerically superior enemy, the result was disastrous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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