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Given the state of the Iraqi military, things would have gone south immediately, and the troops would never leave.
by hx87 10y ago
Given the state of the Iraqi military, things would have gone south immediately, and the troops would never leave.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoWould they, though? I think it is a plausible argument that things would have been less likely to go south if the opposing force knew the U.S. forces were there to step in if necessary. While things might still have ended badly, I think there's no question that pulling the U.S. troops out so soon made the collapse a certainty.