Guardian: Reports " The extra troops are heading for Anbar province to block Isis advances from Ramadi to Baghdad and to try to resurrect a US strategy employed from 2006 of arming and training an alliance of Sunni tribes to fight al-Qaida, which was dubbed the “Anbar Awakening”. "
Lets Get Rea:
The Sunni tribes will only take part if they think this time the US will stay, for that to happen they will want to see boots on the ground. These soldiers should be there to fight IS not just train the Iraqi forces. The question is can President Obama do a Bush 43 without US combat troops there to help the Iraqi forces should they get in to trouble. As noted my previous post it can be argued that President Obama is following the Vietnam case for more troops leading to more troops. The President might want to throw the issue down the road but history has a way of not doing what its told, thus expect more troops for Iraq, at the of the day the US could have thousands of combat troops in Iraq, history repeats itself all the time.
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