Nancy Youssef, Daily Beast: Iraqis Retreated, This Marine Died
Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin was sent to defend a base the Iraqis had largely abandoned. Hours later, he was killed by an ISIS rocket strike.
The local Iraqi troops had fled the base, retreating into the mountains. That’s why the U.S. military dispatched 200 Marines to a remote outpost in northern Iraq—leading to the death of a Marine just hours later.
The Iraqis had decided the location was too dangerous to stay in, three defense officials told The Daily Beast. The arrival of the Marines, U.S. officials hoped, would give the Iraqis the backbone to fight.
The Iraqis, members of that nation’s 15th Division, had arrived at the base near the city of Makhmour six weeks earlier with great fanfare, greeted by the Iraqi Minister of Defense. Almost immediately, they began retreating from the base amid a barrage of ISIS strikes. Four Iraqi troops at the base were reportedly killed this month by ISIS strikes.
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WNU Editor: This sums up how the offensive to retake Mosul is taking place ....
.... Makhmour is now considered the staging area for an Iraqi offensive on Mosul. In fact, officials announced Thursday that the advance around Makhmour was the start of the plan to take back Mosul from ISIS. But the fact that it took 200 Marines to get one of Iraq’s better divisions to move on abandoned villages did not portend well for that upcoming operation.
Bottom line .... from the looks of it .... a lot of Iraqis are not willing to risk their lives for their country.
2 comments:
The "stories" keep changing.
The previous "story" was that it was an all - Marine artillary firebase, several klicks outside the Iraq base, set up to provide long range and MLRS fire support, ( capabilities the Iraqi Army does not have), for the upcoming attack on Monsul.
Re; bottom line. And why should they? In their minds once ISIS is cleared away someone else will invade. It sounds as if they are a defeated nation, multiple times.
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