{"id":36823,"date":"2013-07-28T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36823"},"modified":"2013-07-28T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T13:36:00","slug":"the-danger-of-pulling-out-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36823","title":{"rendered":"The danger of pulling out too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that *surprise* Iraq is collapsing into another regional civil war fueled by an undecimated al Qeada;<\/p>\n

While saying it’s clear the job was “not done,” he warned: \u201cAl Qaeda as an entity is coming back strong within the region and is doing things to destabilize governments, which, at this point in time, are still friendly to us.” <\/p>\n

On Thursday, Iraq\u2019s parliament speaker painted a grim picture of a crumbling country that is taking another beating by terrorists.<\/p>\n

“The situation is grave,” Osama al-Nujaifi said during a press conference.<\/p>\n

Al-Nujaifi believes recent spikes in sectarian violence coupled with political instability are fueling concerns that the country could be pushed into another civil war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I knew that we’d be back in Iraq at the end of our war in 1991, and I also predicted that we’d be back because the second war wasn’t finished in Iraq. And just a few weeks ago the Obama Administration hinted that they were going to send troops back to Iraq to train the government forces to fight al Qaeda. No danger of mission creep, right?<\/p>\n

The discussion comes on the heels of a massive bomb detonation which caused the deaths of 16 people and 20 more injured at a cafe in Baghdad and the huge prison break at Abu Ghraib which spilled hundreds of prisoners back into the wild, most of them al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

But, it’s just reaping what we sowed in Iraq. Instead of building on the successes of the “surge”, we simply left. I’ll admit that the Iraqis were partially at fault for not agreeing to a reasonable “status of forces agreement” which would have protected our troops from the local justice system, but someone should have been more persistent in negotiating for a SOFA instead of just throwing up their hands and leaving Iraq with job only half done. But, hey, it got them through the the 2012 election season right? While they were touting the withdrawal of US troops as some sort of victory.<\/p>\n

And, because of the half-assed way we’re approaching the war in Afghanistan, we can expect the outcome to be similar there as well. I’m not advocating for a larger commitment to Afghanistan or the reintroduction of US forces to Iraq, just the opposite. I just wish politicians would learn that unilaterally calling an end to the fighting is surrender not something to be celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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