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It’s a non-binding resolution.

Binding or non-binding how do we ignore it? Do we say, "Tough. We're staying?" How does that not look like it's an occupation force? If we don't have the support of the government then what's the point in being there?

It’s a bad situation, but this resolution would be a total break of diplomatic ties, as with Iran, since we couldn’t staff an embassy with marines. So before we react to anything, we will need to see if Iraq really has the balls to go forward with this threat. In the mean time, we kill terrorist threats.

Iraq gets lots of aid from us. They will cry like babies about that aid being cut off and being treated as an extension of Iran, which the govt seems to have become.

Backing up, any smart team of planners could have foreseen this parliament move as a possible outcome of the attack on the Iranian general. The smart planners are already two steps ahead of this move. I’m betting on trump and his planners.

I personally doubt we will abandon our efforts against ISIS in Iraq any more than we did in Syria, where we were not exactly welcomed by the Syrian govt either.

[Binding or non-binding how do we ignore it? Do we say, “Tough. We’re staying?” How does that not look like it’s an occupation force? If we don’t have the support of the government then what’s the point in being there? ]

An occupation force is one that stays despite laws being passed to expel that force. The passage of actual laws would involve the Iraqi military going into battle to evict our guys there. That is not what is happening here. It’s basically a statement of displeasure. We had plenty of those before Obama withdrew the entire force, then had to jump back in to prevent ISIS from overrunning the country. Even the Iranians aren’t confident they can hold ISIS back in Iraq. That’s why we’re still there.

If ISIS wins in the Middle East, everyone there will join up or die. And they will join up - that’s more or less the way Islam originally spread. 1% die. 99% join the winners. That’s why we need to stick around. And the Shiite Arabs need us, if they’re to remain Shiites. Because they can’t fight worth a damn. That’s why this is a resolution and not a law. Because they don’t want a rerun of ISIS overrunning vast regions of the country again. The Shiites are bastards, but they’re sorta, kinda our bastards, at least in comparison to ISIS.