@fannybandit Yes, they did, did you not pay attention to worldwide events in 2011? 99% of our ground forces were sent home and only advisors were left.

In both Iraq and Afghanistan?

Yep.

Show me.

I'm not buying that at all.

There's no way in hell 99% of our forces just left.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-withdrawal/last-u-s-troops-leave-iraq-ending-war-idUSTRE7BH03320111218

I know that because even after ISIS is defeated, we're still malingering.

Dude...

That's Reuters...

They say anything for attention.

They're the tabloids of journalism.

Get me a times source.

@fannybandit And while the US has not "officially" left afghanistan because the taliban still control 1/3 of afghanistan, the numbers of troops dropped from around 10K in the early 2000's, to about a few dozen today.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/world/middleeast/last-convoy-of-american-troops-leaves-iraq.html?referer=https://www.google.com/

"Still, the United States will continue to play a role in Iraq. The largest American Embassy in the world is located here, and in the wake of the military departure it is doubling in size — to roughly 16,000 people, most of them contractors. Under the authority of the ambassador will be fewer than 200 military personnel, to guard the embassy and oversee the sale of weapons to the Iraqi government."

We never left, we just rotated warfighters.

You have to read it all.

Those 16,000 contractors were most likely made up of mercenaries.

We traded soldiers for monsters.

Soldiers can keep the peace...mercenaries don't want peace.

Bad for business.

@fannybandit Still not US soldiers, and, mercanaries have kind of died out in iraq, mostly because there is nobody left to shoot at, they either went to kurdistan or the dier ez zor region where ISIS is still present on the conventional warfare level.

We're talking about 2011, remember?

Yes, mercenaries have died out in Iraq.

Luckily...otherwise there would be chaos.

fake lefist

lol

ISIS is no longer present on the conventional warfare level.

There hasn't been a single death of a conventional soldier in over a year.

They exist in kurdistan today, and for the most part they are just gambits from foreign powers to scrap up more power, and a large part of the former ISIS fighters have become kurdistan fighters...... really makes you wonder.....

They aren't causing military casualties.

They may as well not exist.

@fannybandit How many times do I have to show you an article that shows how a group of people got shot to death or got bombed by a jet.

How do you know?

I know because there hasn't been a single report of a conventional soldier dying.

There have been a few special operations KIAs in the past year...but that's it.

All of them are reported.

In other words you don't know because you have just been extremely ignorant, to the point where you have purposefully ignored articles from the middle east that showed how many people have died.

I haven't ignored a single article.

I'm stating that there are no more conventional KIAs.

Therefore, anyone can reasonably deduce that terrorism on a conventional warfighting level no longer exists.