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US President Donald Trump has said he has no plans to withdraw the approximately 50,000 troops involved in the Iran war until there is a clear conclusion.
"I don't consider the troops to be at risk. We have the best defense that anybody has ever seen. We have the best offense that anybody has ever seen. So I don't consider it a risk. I would say it would be unwise to do that, because we could probably use them ," Trump told "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker during a wide-ranging taped interview released today.
During the interview, Trump compared the number of casualties in the Iran operation to the American war in Vietnam, during which the US lost more than 58,000 troops.
“We lost 13 people here and that’s a lot. Thirteen people, a lot. But if you look at Vietnam, where hundreds of thousands of people were killed, if you look at any of the last seven or eight wars where many, many people were killed, we lost 13. And again, 13 is a lot. I don’t want to lose any. But 13 is less than anyone ever imagined. I think we’re doing a great job,” he said.
Thirteen US soldiers have been killed in connection with the conflict. Six soldiers were killed on March 1 after an Iranian attack on the port of Shuaiba in Kuwait. One soldier died on March 8 after an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, and six soldiers died on March 12 when a US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker tanker crashed in western Iraq.
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