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In getting involved in another big middle eastern war. he's worried that his base, a lot of his base doesn't want another big military commitment. so in some ways maybe he's trying to telegraph the reason that he didn't want to go and trying to look compassionate like there would have been an escalation. we saw in reports overnight that the chairman of joint chiefs of staff, dunford, general dunford, was very worried about potential iranian retaliation if the u.s. had done a military strike. we have 5,000 u.s. forces in iraq and throughout the region. and force protection is a big issue. so th...
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