Out of Iraq, but ‘in the neighborhood’?
Most experts, the military and CIA all agree our military presents in Middle East are increasing terrorism. So why is the plan to have our military in the Middle East long term?
MSNBC- Senate GOP leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky signaled Tuesday that he is looking for “a bipartisan agreement that we need a long-term deployment somewhere in the Middle East in the future” — but he pointedly did not say that accord had to entail maintaining the U.S. deployment in Iraq itself.
He said he hoped the politically charged debate in Congress over Iraq would not lead to an outcome in which “we just bring all the troops back home and thereby expose us once again to the kind of attacks we’ve had here” in the United States or attacks such as the one on the Navy ship USS Cole in 2000.
McConnell said if he and Democrats were able to reach an accord, the American troops would be “in that area of the world… It would be up to the generals to recommend where the troops ought to be. I think we need to be in the neighborhood of where the biggest problem is.”
