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Puzzling. Troops aren't trained to police countries. With little to none cultural or religious understanding, I fail to see how the presence of foreign soldiers walking around your hometown is more secure than lets say a militia. It seems every government in Iraq we try to empower just crumbles because of no local support, why not just get out and let the locals deal with it themselves. Instead of building from the top down, it needs to start from the locals which to me it seems like are being repressed...