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TwilightGardener

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2. Starting to suspect the US let Ramadi fall, deliberately. Yes, it was as much our defeat as
Wed May 27, 2015, 03:27 PM
May 2015

the Iraqis', because we are there to advise and direct the war and provide air support and intel, despite what the idiot Carter says about Iraqi cowardice. Once we partnered with Iraq and other countries to take out ISIS, it's every bit as much our responsibility as theirs. The question is, why did we purposefully let it fall--when it had been contested by ISIS and safeguarded by the Iraqis for over a year? Why did the Mosul take-back effort get advertised in detail "by mistake" in February, and then the effort immediately and indefinitely shelved? Something weird is going on. I don't know if we are trying to break up Iraq, necessarily, but we sure aren't putting up much effort on ISIS lately.

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