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Re:Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015) by AnimalMuppet on Thursday September 14, 2017 @12:49PM (#15249841)
The problem is, we wanted to do Iraq and Afghanistan and get out. If we had done a Marshall Plan in Iraq, we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade, but it would have been stable when we left.
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Re:Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015) by mmjaa on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:26PM (#15250250)
The problem is, you thought it was acceptable to be there in the first place.

Fuck, its 2017, are we really still explaining this? Of course we are. We must.

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Re:Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015) by pyrale on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:19PM (#15250171)
> we would have had maybe 100,000 troops there for a decade

The US has had north of 100k troops in Iraq for 7 years, then about 50k for 3 more years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007#/...

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Re:Russian researchers expose U.S. spying program (2015) by jlgaddis on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:35PM (#15250367)
The U.S. doesn't leave. Pretty much any where we send troops, we tend to set up bases there and remain indefinitely.

Just look at Germany, Japan, Korea, Iraq, ...

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