{"id":52100,"date":"2014-06-24T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52100"},"modified":"2014-06-23T19:07:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T23:07:44","slug":"sofa-approved-by-iraq-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52100","title":{"rendered":"SOFA approved by Iraq &#038; US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sort of status of forces agreement (SOFA) has been hammered out between the US and Iraq for the hundreds of troops that will be arriving to help the Iraqis stop the juggernaut of al Qaeda-linked ISIS forces pressing towards Baghdad. You might remember that a SOFA was the sticking point between the countries when the US (half-assed) didn&#8217;t want to withdra completely from Iraq. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us-iraq-agree-to-legal-umbrella-for-advisers-1.290256\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The protections are based on an exchange of diplomatic note between the two nations, and provide legal protections equivalent to the diplomatic immunity enjoyed by U.S. troops already advising on non-operational matters like foreign military sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe these protections are adequate to the short-term assessment and advisory mission our troops will be performing in Iraq,\u201d Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement Monday. \u201cWith this agreement, we will be able to start establishing the first few assessment teams.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the hundreds of troops headed for Iraq are quite a bit fewer than the thousands that the US wanted to leave behind in 2011. Nonetheless, I guess that it&#8217;s easier to negotiate with Maliki when the lions are at the gate of Baghdad than it was when he was basking in the relative peace that Americans had spilled blood for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sort of status of forces agreement (SOFA) has been hammered out between the US and &hellip; <a title=\"SOFA approved by Iraq &#038; US\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52100\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SOFA approved by Iraq &#038; US<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}