US Investment In Training Iraqi Forces Thrown Into Doubt

Billions Spent, Thousands Of Lives Lost: US Investment In Training Iraqi Forces Thrown Into Doubt -- FOX News

Billions of U.S. dollars invested in training and equipping Iraq's security forces are in danger of going to waste as Iraqi soldiers abandon their posts in the face of Al Qaeda-aligned militants on a deadly march through the country's north -- not to mention the thousands of American lives lost in the nine-year war.

Iraqi security forces reportedly fled in two more towns late Thursday, after army divisions abandoned the cities of Mosul and Tikrit earlier in the week. Lawmakers and Obama administration officials were alarmed at how quickly the Iraqi Army, which U.S. forces spent years building up, effectively disintegrated in northern strongholds.

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., called it a "surprise to everybody."

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My Comment: To keep Iraq unified the cost to the U.S. has been the loss of 5,000 soldiers, tens of thousands wounded, and a trillion plus spent .... and it is now all unraveling before our eyes. The above video analysis on the crisis in Iraq is spot on.