The latest Gallup Poll has found Democrats and Republicans agree that Congress and the President should focus on Iraq. According to Gallup’s first look at issue importance since the mid-term election, the majority of Americans say Iraq should be the government’s highest priority. The survey, conducted in late November, found that nearly seven in 10 or 69 percent of Americans put Iraq at the top of their concerns list, followed by the economy, healthcare, and immigration—each cited by “fewer than one in five Americans.
U.S. Southern Command recently announced its first lethal strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in two months, and the first under a newly formed permanent counter-cartel task force. The U.S. is also reportedly planning to transfer MQ-9 drones to Colombia to bolster its counter-cartel efforts.