Sunday, May 24, 2015

US: Iraq's 'will to fight' at issue after IS takeover Ramadi - Defeat was built into Bush invasion. Don't invade and set up democracies in far-off alien cultures unless you want to station tens of thousands of troops there forever. --tma

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US: Iraq's 'will to fight' at issue after IS takeover Ramadi

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Islamic State group's takeover of the Iraqi city of Ramadi shows that Iraqi forces do not have the "will to fight," the U.S. defense secretary says— the harshest assessment yet from a high-ranking Obama administration official about Iraqi fighters.
Iraqi forces outnumbered their opposition in the capital of Anbar province but failed to fight and pulled back from the city in central Iraq, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on CNN's "State of the Union" TV show, which aired Sunday. The Iraqis left behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including several tanks. ...