President Trump's foreign policy failures continue to pile up in the Middle East that now require more American troops be put in harms way. The idea was to reduce America's troop presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, end those wars and let those two countries defend themselves with all the training they received from American troops who stayed behind for that purpose.
But the President undermined all that by withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement rejecting our allies sound advise, refusing to believe Iran was in compliance and instituted sanctions against Iran that has once again destabilized the region. Iran now has a larger role in Iraq than ever before and a larger say so in that government.
A successful foreign policy would not require more Americans to be deployed to the Middle East. President Obama's decision to remove all of America's combat troops from Iraq and leave behind only those troops necessary to continue the training of Iraq troops was the right decision. Any draw down of American troops now in Iraq will be speculative at best and could involve more combat operations for those troops in Iraq then they experienced since the draw down.
A reckless foreign policy is not in the best interest of America and certainly not in the best interest of our troops who give and sacrifice so much for their country.
This commentary was written by Joe Lorio
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