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Originally Posted by Rochard
I disagree.
The United States has about four thousand US troops in Iraq, and has for the past few years. This is mostly for air support, training, and defense. It's Iraqi forces taking on ISIS directly, not US troops.
Here is a good example: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/w...tate.html?_r=0
We also have 8k toops in Afghanistan, but again these are mostly for air support, training, and defense.
To put this in perspective, the US has 40k troops in Germany, 50k troops in Japan, and 28k in South Korea.
You are making it out so that we these countries would fall apart without support from US troops, which is not true. We have a very small amount of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and they are not really engaged in combat. |
South Korea has nothing to do with what is happening in the Middle East.
When our troops were pulled out from Iraq...ISIS moved in and conquered the majority of the country.
Only when US troops started coming back in and bombing from US planes started in earnest did ISIS begin losing ground.
Same exact thing has happened in Afghanistan. This is a map of Afghanistan in 2017...14 years after we "removed" the Taliban:
Comparing the cultures of civilized nations with the barbarians in Afghanistan and Iraq is a mistake that many make.
The South Koreans are a huge economic force who WANT to work with us. Same with Germany and Japan.
Afghans and Iraqi's? They would kill you on sight if you wandered into one of their stone-age villages or went out of the "green zone" in either country.