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What if instead of full withdrawal in 2011, the US managed to be able to leave behind 10,000 soldiers in a permanent capacity to maintain peace in Iraq?
What if instead of full withdrawal in 2011, the US managed to be able to leave behind 10,000 soldiers in a permanent capacity to maintain peace in Iraq?
ISIL wouldn't be in control of parts of Iraq, they aren't that stupid to attack Mosul with US soldiers in the country. Iran would have a tough time resupplying Assad I would think.
It bit depend would that make with agreement with Iraqi government. But surely this cause much more resistance against the government. Probably even stronger ISIS.
What if instead of full withdrawal in 2011, the US managed to be able to leave behind 10,000 soldiers in a permanent capacity to maintain peace in Iraq?
There would not be a peace to keep.
The elected Iraqi president was denouncing America and demanding the forces leave, with "Down with the evil baby eating tentacle monster Americans" comments/Speeches. The guy who threw his shoe at Bush was a big nationalist hero.
The militias that are currently the only reliable fighting force the Iraqi government has were virulently Anti-American, as you would expect from organisations created and/or run by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
The Shiite population hates, fears and distrusts the Suni's. The Suni's had toned down the violence which was mainly about taking back minority government because they were being paid to. There is an Israeli saying, "You can't buy and Arab, but you can certainly rent them."
When the Iraqi government stopped paying and fired the Suni officers the Suni militias went back to being anti-government. Isis control's the area it conquored because the Suni militias are running them. Isis does not have the manpower to dominate all this by themselves after all, and is paying them.
The Republicans do better in 2012.