2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhen American "advisers" in Iraq are attacked and/or killed, what do you think will happen?
We are putting targets on the ground, the targeting of which may "force" us to redeploy more troops to the region.
bradla
(89 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)It's going to happen. I have no doubt. All we're doing is putting more people on the ground as targets.
alsame
(7,784 posts)tens of thousands of troops, these 'advisors' are extremely vulnerable
EEO
(1,620 posts)All of the apologists for Obama on this issue need to wake up and recognize the extreme risk we are taking.
jrandom421
(1,005 posts)is that these guys know all about it. The SF guys who went in for Desert Shield, joked about being "Saddam's Riyadh Speed Bumps".
It's all part of the risk that those who volunteer for Special Ops know, understand, and accept. Doesn't make it any easier, but it has been traditional since the first Special Forces group was established in 1952.
"Since their establishment in 1952, Special Forces soldiers have operated in Vietnam, El Salvador, Panama, Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, and, in an FID role, Operation Enduring Freedom Horn of Africa, which was transferred to United States Africa Command in 2008"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Forces_(United_States_Army)
All nasty, ugly, war-torn places where the lifespan of a "military adviser" is short. So what else is new?
EEO
(1,620 posts)... on the table. He basically opened the door to the possibility of American troops dying and the pressure following such deaths to send in more troops to die will be fierce.