Posted on May 27, 2015

SecDef Carter's take on Iraqi's undercuts President's strategy. Will the U.S. be changing course in Iraq?

GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad

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Defense Secretary Ash Carter's blunt assessment that Iraqi forces lack the "will to fight" undermines a central premise of President Obama's strategy for defeating the Islamic State: that Iraq's military can effectively handle ground operations so Americans don't have to.

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/pentagon/2015/05/26/pentagon-chiefs-take-on-iraqis-undercuts-obamas-strategy/27978347/

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Capt Seid Waddell

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Defense Secretary Ash Carter has an excellent point. Sunnis led by Shia officers have no will to fight - it is a lose/lose situation for them, since the government purged the Sunni leadership.

They are not a unified country now; the gains made during our years in Iraq were lost when we exited prematurely and allowed the situation to degrade again into sectarian fighting.

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