Iraq just unliberated a bit of itself

[Professor]

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[The Comrade]

that's silly

"here's all this equipment. but you have to sign it out on this clipboard or else you'll get detention"

and then they buy russian equipment instead.

[exploited]

Sounds good to me. That way they can lose Russian equipment and not American equipment.

I also heard about a technology called GPS that might make this whole thing a little easier. You could put a "GPS unit" into these vehicles and track them with "satellites," which I'm told are like flying saucers for people.

[The Comrade]

why would you design equipment around the possibility that another country might lose a battle?

you realize how "hindsight is 20/20" that is, right?

military equipment isn't designed around every possible contingency. you know that.

also, arms deals are an important aspect of diplomacy. you also know this.

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[uebermann]

[The Comrade]

except this ISIS problem isn't sectarian, it's a case of a foreign invasion. lifehack: sunni militias are currently marching on mosul to fight ISIS. yes, sunni militias.

now that we've got that out of the way, we track their equipment. what then mr. "don't interfere in syria not even once ever" ? do we bomb the dozens of targets in syria that now have random american equipment in them? how involved are gonna get in syria to make sure stolen weapons don't get used?

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[Indy]

Equipment? Really? Although Blackhawks and tanks? Did they really get some? WTF were we doing giving the Iraqis Blackhawks?

Point: let's see we armed these guys (bad idea) and trained them (either poorly, or they were untrainable) and then we helped set up a corrupt gov't run by a twit whose bright idea was to EXCLUDE the Sunni population and, ta-da!

What a shock that this didn't work.

Of course, this war was lost before it was even fought back starting in 2003 because there was no post-invasion plan, this was merely a wargasm for president Cheney, all the PNAC goons and blue pill-popping geriatric warmongers like John McCain.

So now that we see how this has turned out (entirely predictable, but if you said this back in '04 you were slammed as a spineless liberal coward who wanted to "cut n' run"), hmmm... what other instances can we think of where we've been in a country for around a decade, spent billions upon billions to train their clownish military and which also has a corrupt gov't that we helped set up, run by a twit? Does anybody think that will turn out any differently?