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To: koan who wrote (789759)	6/13/2014 4:34:54 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575848

Like I said, it is what it is. I think we both can see what is coming, barring any intervention. “If you’re in an antique shop there’s a sign, ‘If you broke it, you bought it,'??” the official, who is an adviser to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, said. “I am not saying the Americans are responsible for everything, but they did not leave a well-trained army and they left us without any real air support, and the Obama administration really shares much of the blame.”

To: koan who wrote (789759)	6/13/2014 4:40:14 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575848

>> They did not want us there. So what do you think we could have done. They asked us to leave. You don't know what happened. Publicly is one thing, privately is another. Either way, Obama should have pushed back and said, "It is in our national interest to make certain this thing doesn't fall apart. We're going to stay, let's figure out how to handle the politics." This was anticipated from the outset, it is what the Pentagon expected would happen, and it was the failure of Obama not to have renegotiated on SOFA. The point of the existing SOFA, which was a difficult negotiation, was to create a bridge to its expiration while maintaining the the prerogative of the incoming president. Everyone understood that. Except one guy, I guess.