Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Joey. I think if he would've followed the wisdom of someone like Ron Paul, he could have extricated himself from the middle-east immediately and shuttered the embassy that led to this escalation before these events occurred.
However, I think there are security agreements that he's contractually obliged to fulfill in the region which may make a U.S. presence, and possibly an embassy, required elements of the arrangement.
This SOFA agreement, I'm not sure if it ever ended? Troops get removed, and they make a big tadoo about it. However, almost simultaneously, they're replaced with fresh faces. If full removal of U.S. troops is a contingency that triggers the end of the Iraqi SOFA and it's never happened, then they're intentionally prolonging the agreement for their "interests," whatever those may be.
The U.S. has so many Status of Forces Agreements. We've strayed way too far from avoiding entangling alliances. I wonder if the new POTUS's are subject to the President's previous SOFA-like agreements. If that's the case, it might explain why these things never get shut down.
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