My money is on a total exit in the coming weeks. Latest was just a reminder for Iran to not interfere in that process.
Trump campaigned on withdrawing troops from the ME. I'm not seeing him changing anything on the run up to the election.
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Have we covered this yet?
Soleimani Was Plotting Coup in Iraq: U.S. Senator Rubio
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile..../idUSKBN1Z21P8
Could the Iraqis have possibly even asked for our help? It also explains ongoing strikes to capture or kill other Iranian assets in the area.
I just wish they'd used another MOAB instead. I like those things. :D
One more point, there’s been no official response from the Iraqi PM I can find, which is curious.
Entirely possible that the Iraqi government asked for our help targeting Iranian HVTs. Even though Iraq is predominately Shi’a, it would be a mistake to presume that your average Iraqi likes taking their marching orders from Tehran. While in Iraq, many of the Iraqi Shi’a that I got to know over the years told me that they resented Iran’s attempt to subvert Iraq’s new government, as well as being a destabilizing force in central and southern Iraq.
While the western media played up Al Qaeda in Iraq during the GWOT, much of the sectarian violence and attacks on Coalition troops came from Iranian sponsored proxies, such as Jaesh al Mahdi, Badr Corps, and in the case of the January 2007 attack on American forces in Karbala, IRGC Qods Force elements.
In my view, eliminating Soleimani and other Iranian HVTs operating in Iraq and Syria significantly degrades the operational capacity of the IRGC, making us more, not less safe.
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