{"id":69231,"date":"2016-12-05T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69231"},"modified":"2016-12-04T19:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T00:09:46","slug":"gee-what-a-surprise-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69231","title":{"rendered":"Gee.  What A Surprise."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the current DC <em>cognoscenti<\/em> are beginning their preparations for departure.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I say that?\u00a0 Because yet another of those \u201chigh mucky-mucks\u201d currently in the Federal government now seems free to speak his or her mind &#8211; and deviate from the accepted \u201cparty line\u201d.\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/12\/04\/defense-secretary-ash-carter-says-us-partners-need-to-stay-in-iraq-after-isis-defeat.html\">Here\u2019s a quote<\/a><\/em> from a current high-level political appointees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut there will still be much more to do after that to make sure that, once defeated, ISIL stays defeated.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll need to continue to counter foreign fighters trying to escape and ISIL&#8217;s attempts to relocate or reinvent itself. To do so, not only the United States but our coalition must endure and remain engaged militarily.<\/p>\n<p>In Iraq in particular, it will be necessary for the coalition to provide sustained assistance and carry on our work to train, equip, and support local police, border guards, and other forces to hold areas cleared from ISIL\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, he\u2019s saying we\u2019ll need a US \u201cstay behind force\u201d in Iraq after Daesh is defeated in order to maintain long-term stability.\u00a0 Surprise, surprise.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds familiar . . . it should.\u00a0 It\u2019s the same thing <em><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/obama-was-warned-repeatedly-of-consequences-of-withdrawal-from-iraq\/\">several others were telling<\/a><\/em> the current Occupant, 1600 Penn Ave, Wash DC and his\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del><em>clueless clown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/krewe\">krewe<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Administration about Iraq during SOFA negotiations in 2011.\u00a0 It\u2019s also what several of them later said publicly about the resulting mess \u2013 as well as saying that the rise of Daesh is directly attributable to a lack of any US stay-behind forces.<\/p>\n<p>The person quoted above?\u00a0 That would be the Honorable Ashton Carter \u2013 AKA, the current SECDEF.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.\u00a0 For some reason, the phrase \u201crats leaving a sinking ship\u201d comes to mind.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n<p>I will be so glad when something resembling adult leadership having a freaking clue about how the real world works returns to that Open Air Brothel on the Potomac called DC next month.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thoroughly sick and tired of being led by clueless ideologues with zero understanding of the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Eight years of Leftist idiocy is far too long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like the current DC cognoscenti are beginning their preparations for departure. Why do &hellip; <a title=\"Gee.  What A Surprise.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69231\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gee.  What A Surprise.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69231","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}