So U.S. troops are "leaving" the Middle East next year
What do you think of it? I know that obviously not all of them will be removed; that's a given, but what do you think of everything that's happened and what do you (if you want to) speculate will happen in years following 2014?
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Re: So U.S. troops are leaving the Middle East next year
it will hopefully create a middleast with less tense situation than now. Unless al-qaeda gains more sympathy there once again in the public.
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Last edited by Asheekay; February 10th, 2013 at 11:08 PM.
Re: So U.S. troops are leaving the Middle East next year
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Originally Posted by D3matt
I get the feeling I've heard this before... I'll believe it when I see it.
The point is, they're supposedly cutting the troop levels in half. Removing the main occupation force (or a good chunk of it) in favor of keeping the SOCOM and training staff. Which is pretty much should have been done before if the plan was to help the nation protect itself against terrorists.
EDIT: I've put 'leaving' in quotes
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Last edited by Adrian Ţepeş; February 10th, 2013 at 10:30 PM.
Re: So U.S. troops are "leaving" the Middle East next year
Well, Afghanistan to be more precise, Iraq only has marines in the large US embassy complex. It was a good decision to leave Iraq, you couldn't stabilize that country with the US in as it provocated just more insurgency. Saddam Hussein was a stabilizing character in Iraq, he didn't give jihadists any growing space. Sad to see that the Shias are now open prey for the Sunni jihadists to just bomb their weddings.
Afghanistan is a United Nations approved ISAF peacekeeping and construction operation. I wish it had more attention from the beginning, they could have put more troops to Afghanistan instead of Iraq and deal with it. Of course the problem is the leaking border to Pakistan. But now that Osama bin Laden has been killed, there's some closure to it.
The perfect scenario would be that when the ISAF leaves, insurgents will lose much of their support and the new administration will stay. But given how persistent the Taliban has been throughout the decades, I have some doubts on that. But ISAF can't go on forever, just have to leave at some point even if it may cause trouble and be glad that's it's finally over.
Just don't make the mistake to think that when the US leaves Afghanistan the support for jihad would be over. There will be support for that kind of terrorism atleast as long as the Israeli-Palestine conflict continues.
Last edited by Rikupsoni; February 11th, 2013 at 05:50 AM.
Re: So U.S. troops are "leaving" the Middle East next year
Don't forget Kashmir about it too.
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Re: So U.S. troops are "leaving" the Middle East next year
Not that we don't have people near those areas, but what exactly would be the point of mobilizing the troops into the danger zones?
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Re: So U.S. troops are "leaving" the Middle East next year
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Originally Posted by Asheekay
Don't forget Kashmir about it too.
That's Pakistan v. India, mostly unrelated to Afghanistan. Although there have been religious rebels there.
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Originally Posted by Marirranya
i think with the growing tension with regards to China and North Korea...
they might move troops within Asia soon.
"Tensions mount with North Korea" has been a regular story in the news cycle since the 1950's. In essence everyone wants North Korea to stay up, South Korea doesn't want to have to pour resources into that country into order to modernize the backwards nation since it doesn't have the economy to do so (West Germany for example had one of the largest economics in the world and thus it was able to incorporate East Germany, which was alot more modernized than North Korea is), China doesn't want North Korea to go away because that would means refugee's fleeing to China. Thus at the end of it people are propping up this regime which is long been a decayed pariah of a husk because they can't deal with the huge mess the country got itself into.
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