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SSG Pete Fleming I respect the responses you put here on rally point
But I have to ask with respect to a rack being on its way to being self-sufficient and capable of defending itself without US support is this something you observed personally you read about somebody you trusted told you so ?

I ask because from my position in 2010 I cannot concur the rack was capable of willing to Orwood in the foreseeable future be ready to go on as a nation without significant US support

I was there in 03/04... and yes a lot changed since then. But they were calming down and though there was still tension, often very violent tension between the groups, they were moving in a forward direction. They needed us to stay and secure the fringe elements while the main body healed their wounds and moved forward. By '08 this was happening, and did need some more time. But once we pulled out and even changed our overall ME policies it created a vacuum. Radicals took advantage of this, followed by a our support of the failed Arab spring, which resulted in the toppling of governments in Egypt and Libya and the Syrian Civil war, which then brought the refugee crisis. We stood by and did nothing while the extremist, later to be called ISIS rolled across the dessert seizing military equipment and territory. Had we stayed, in force the radicals would never gotten the initial strong hold, but we should never have supported and sponsored the Arab spring either.

Cpl Mark A. Morris
We will have to agree to disagree. I believe there is radical splinters/factions in all religion. So in there philosophy they are radical Islam or radical Christianity etc.
You have a great afternoon also!