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bvar22

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10. 50 Combat Troops in that area...

Reply to morningfog (Original post)

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 04:22 PM

Dec 2015

is 50 Combat Troops too many.

Pretty soon, they will need another "surge", and more armed "contractors" as this regional, tribal war spins out of control.

There is NO WAY we can "WIN" this,
All we can do is get more people killed, which turns into multiple "terrorists" who hate the US for our freedom to kill them and their families and neighbors without consequence.
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but the War Profiteers will make another few BILLIONS.

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US deploying more than 50 combat troops on the gound, to act unilaterally in Iraq and Syria [View all] morningfog Dec 2015 OP

50 here, 50 there, soon to be........... Paper Roses Dec 2015 #1

No one I know. 840high Dec 2015 #6

And if just one gets captured? atreides1 Dec 2015 #2

Then the American Public will demand we send 100,000 to avenge him tkmorris Dec 2015 #12

I love how they keep calling Syria a "civil war" GreatGazoo Dec 2015 #3

It is a civil war. With lots of outside countries now involved in it. jeff47 Dec 2015 #7

The only forces who should be on the ground in Iraq TwilightGardener Dec 2015 #4

Now that John McCain's ISIS friends have slaughtered the local populations, destroyed any resistance 951-Riverside Dec 2015 #5

Uh...fuck it. Forget it. Solly Mack Dec 2015 #8

They need to go back to the '60s and look up "mission creep" DebbieCDC Dec 2015 #9

50 Combat Troops in that area... bvar22 Dec 2015 #10

Cue 'Rat Patrol' intro. Kaleva Dec 2015 #11