The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon will be reducing troop levels in Iraq by a third.
The U. S. will be reducing the number of troops it has stationed in Iraq by about a third, reports The Wall Street Journal, leaving behind roughly 3,500 men and women. This news comes after a long series of brags at the Republican National Convention that President Donald Trump is succeeding in ending America’s foreign wars. „Unlike previous administrations, I have kept America out of new wars, and our troops are coming home,“ said Trump in his acceptance speech last night, promising that in a second term he would „strike down terrorists who threaten our people and keep America out of endless and costly foreign wars.“ The Journal reports that the departure of some 1,700 troops from Iraq will occur over the next few months. Once gone, America’s military presence in that country will be where it was in 2015.
