Troops out of Afghanistan now.

Daesh is the officers once serving Saddam Hussein. One of the first things the USA military should have done in Iraq was find and capture or kill the Iraqi military. They only wanted Saddam because the is what George W. Bush wanted. These Ba'athists should have been tried for war crimes along with Saddam a long time ago.

How could have the USA military missed this? Maybe they were too busy fighting a street war that could not be contained. There is no sense to putting troops in the middle of that again. Every sovereign country needs to secure their country, keep citizens safe while the coalition of Air Force continues to destroy the hiding places of the Ba'athists in Syria, that is if they aren't in Turkey by now.

8 August 2015
By Tom Wyke

...While attending (click here) the Iraqi army's artillery school nearly 20 years ago, Ali Omran remembers one major well. An Islamic hard-liner, he once chided Omran for wearing an Iraqi flag pin into the bathroom because it included the words 'God is great.'

'It is forbidden by religion to bring the name of the Almighty into a defiled place like this,' Omran recalled being told by Maj. Taha Taher al-Ani.

Omran didn't see al-Ani again until years later, in 2003. The Americans had invaded Iraq and were storming toward Baghdad. Saddam Hussein's fall was imminent.

At a sprawling military base north of the capital, al-Ani was directing the loading of weapons, ammunition and ordnance into trucks to spirit away. He took those weapons with him when he joined Tawhid wa'l-Jihad, a forerunner of al-Qaida's branch in Iraq.

Now al-Ani is a commander in the Islamic State group, said Omran, who rose to become a major general in the Iraqi army and now commands its 5th Division fighting IS.

He kept track of his former comrade through Iraq's tribal networks and intelligence gathered by the government's main counter terrorism service, of which he is a member....