News Analysis - Campaign Promises on Ending the War in Iraq Now Muted by Reality - NYTimes.com
“I said that I would remove our combat troops from Iraq in 16 months, with the understanding that it might be necessary — likely to be necessary — to maintain a residual force to provide potential training, logistical support, to protect our civilians in Iraq,” Mr. Obama said this week as he introduced his national security team.
Publicly at least, Mr. Obama has not set a firm number for that “residual force,” a phrase certain to become central to the debate on the way ahead in Iraq, though one of his national security advisers, Richard Danzig, said during the campaign that it could amount to 30,000 to 55,000 troops.
But these won’t be “combat troops?”
What, then, will they be? Cooks, clerks, and truck drivers? An army of REMFs?
And when they are attacked, who will defend them - surely not themselves, since they aren’t “combat” troops?
Perhaps we can put the Chicago social services system into uniform and send them over there.
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