[Great Caesars Ghost]

Everything the POTUS had claimed must be done, is happening before our very eyes.

This is the one good thing, that I believe that the fighting force we would be leaving is more akin to the bad-@ss South Koreans than the weak and corrupt South Vietnamese.

[Marine_Uncle]

"This is the one good thing, that I believe that the fighting force we would be leaving is more akin to the bad-@ss South Koreans than the weak and corrupt South Vietnamese."
In this I must agree. The Iraqi forces in all their forms are being now trained by our Army,Airforce,Navy,Marines, NATO, and some EU military units, that should prepare them sufficiently to run a military with all the attributes of how we operate.
And obviously they have a common goal to remove the remaining Ali Babba and move toward total stability. It is in the will and intellegience of their selection of political leaders to provide that last required element for success. Obviously we have seen that their governmental operations have a long way to go. It is either going to make them successfull, or heaven knows what will end up happening say two or three years down the pike.