Obama to boost army advisers in Iraq

[DrLeftover]

10 June

The US is to send up to 450 military advisers to Iraq to help train local forces fighting Islamic State, the White House says.

President Obama made the decision following a request from Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, it said.

The troops will be deployed to the Taqaddum military base in Anbar province. IS seized Ramadi - the capital of Anbar - in May.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33083359

You have to wonder what the Nobel committee thinks about that?

 

[Webster]

You have to wonder what the Nobel committee thinks about that?

They don't care...remember, they gave him that Nobel Peace Prize for thinking he'd actually bring peace to the region...

 

[Webster]

On a related note, isn't this how we eventually got swamped into the quagmire that was Vietnam?

 

[DrLeftover]

The current war in Iraq began in 2003 or so.

Kennedy began sending US "advisers" to Vietnam in 1962, I believe, and the war ended in 75.

Do the math.