What is now playing out is the reality of the Biden Plan; an ongoing sectarian civil war and genocide.
Your analysis is just plain flawed. Yes things in Ramadi were bad, but you conveniently left out the period after the Anbar Awakening in 2006, well before the Surge, when the Sunni population by and large rejected Al Qaeda with US help (unlike the similar Sunni only attempt in 2005). By fall 2007, peace had broken out and things stayed that way until the US pull out in 2011 due to the Obama administration not being capable of negotiating a SOFA agreement with the Iraqis.
The government of PM Malaki accused its senior Sunni official, Vice President Tariq al Hashem of murder, forcing him to flee Iraq before being tried in absentia and sentenced to death. Malaki purged the Iraqi army and government ministries of competent leaders and inserted political cronies and Shia extremists. In 2013, Malaki had the term limits in the Iraq constitution declared unconstitutional and attempted to set himself up as emperor for life, and embarked on a systematic persecution of the Sunni population, all while falling further under the influence of the Iranians.
Which leads us to the rebirth of al Qaeda in Iraq, which the administration conveniently calls ISIS, and were we are today, having US troops (without a SOFA agreement) in Iraq trying to train a flawed Iraqi army that will never be capable of defeating Al Qaeda even with the assistance of the Shia death squads and the Iranian Quds force.
We had established stability and told the locals that we would be there for them, and then we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by fulfilling a campaign promise and pulling out. The loss to US credibility is even more devastating than the 1,300 dead and 10X that were wounded securing the city.
Not Fox News but first hand experience in Ramadi, suggest you get your facts straight
What is now playing out is the reality of the Biden Plan; an ongoing sectarian civil war and genocide.
Your analysis is just plain flawed. Yes things in Ramadi were bad, but you conveniently left out the period after the Anbar Awakening in 2006, well before the Surge, when the Sunni population by and large rejected Al Qaeda with US help (unlike the similar Sunni only attempt in 2005). By fall 2007, peace had broken out and things stayed that way until the US pull out in 2011 due to the Obama administration not being capable of negotiating a SOFA agreement with the Iraqis.
The government of PM Malaki accused its senior Sunni official, Vice President Tariq al Hashem of murder, forcing him to flee Iraq before being tried in absentia and sentenced to death. Malaki purged the Iraqi army and government ministries of competent leaders and inserted political cronies and Shia extremists. In 2013, Malaki had the term limits in the Iraq constitution declared unconstitutional and attempted to set himself up as emperor for life, and embarked on a systematic persecution of the Sunni population, all while falling further under the influence of the Iranians.
Which leads us to the rebirth of al Qaeda in Iraq, which the administration conveniently calls ISIS, and were we are today, having US troops (without a SOFA agreement) in Iraq trying to train a flawed Iraqi army that will never be capable of defeating Al Qaeda even with the assistance of the Shia death squads and the Iranian Quds force.
We had established stability and told the locals that we would be there for them, and then we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by fulfilling a campaign promise and pulling out. The loss to US credibility is even more devastating than the 1,300 dead and 10X that were wounded securing the city.