The United States highly regards its military in acknowledgment of the fact that it is America’s armed forces that give it much political maneuvering room around the globe. By the numbers alone, the US military has the most substantial presence overseas, and not just in countries nearby but also in lands far far away.
But the US is technically involved in one war only — in Afghanistan — and its military presence in 176 other countries thus poses serious suspicions about the country’s motives.
As of January 2017, America has 1.3 million forces on active duty, 450,000 of them stationed outside of America.
And yet, on Sunday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said a branch of the Iraqi military that has been fighting Daesh and that he thinks are “foreign fighters” had to “go home” now that Daesh was on its last legs in Iraq.
“Certainly, Iranian militias that are in Iraq, now that the fight against Daesh and ISIS is coming to…