dagblog - Comments for "America&#039;s Hollow Foreign Legions " http://dagblog.com/link/americas-hollow-foreign-legions-18951 Comments for "America's Hollow Foreign Legions " en In June, tens of thousands of http://dagblog.com/comment/199821#comment-199821 <a id="comment-199821"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/americas-hollow-foreign-legions-18951">America&#039;s Hollow Foreign Legions </a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><blockquote> <p>In June, tens of thousands of Iraqi Security Forces in Nineveh province north of Baghdad collapsed in the face of attacks from the militants of the Islamic State (IS or ISIS), abandoning <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/11/mosul-isis-gunmen-middle-east-states" target="_blank">four major cities</a> to that extremist movement. The collapse drew <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/13/world/middleeast/american-intelligence-officials-said-iraqi-military-had-been-in-decline.html" target="_blank">much notice</a> in our <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/13/why-the-iraqi-army-collapsed-and-what-can-be-done-about-it/" target="_blank">media</a>, but not much in the way of sustained analysis of the American role in it.</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:43:09 +0000 A Guy Called LULU comment 199821 at http://dagblog.com