Read more John Abizaid stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/894/john-abizaid.htmlhttp://img1-cdn.newser.com/images/newser-black250x40.gifhttp://www.newser.com/2012 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSat, 26 May 2012 11:25:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/10767/50-more-years-in-mideast-for-us-ex-general-says.htmlNick McMaster<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=41570&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401030344' border='0' />It could be 50 years before US troops leave the Middle East, the former commander of US forces in the region said yesterday. The Associated Press reports that while John Abizaid acknowledges that US forces will eventually play an "indirect role" in conflicts such as Iraq, the military won't be...Retired Army Gen. John Abizaid, the former U.S. commander for the Middle East, is seen in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. It will take three to five years before Iraq's government is stable enough to operate on its own Abizaid said in a interview with the Associated Press on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)http://www.newser.com/story/10767/50-more-years-in-mideast-for-us-ex-general-says.htmlThu, 01 Nov 2007 15:37:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/1132/iraq-is-breaking-the-army.htmlPeter Fearon<img src='http://img1-cdn.newser.com/getimage.aspx?mediaid=2194&width=45&height=45&crop=Y&updateddate=20110401035543' border='0' />The U.S. Army is stretched so thin in Iraq and Afghanistan that it's sending ill-prepared and ill-equipped young people into harm’s way, Time reports. And the surge in troops is only deepening the crisis: Two of the five new brigades bound for the Middle East will skip vital situational... U.S. soldiers of B Company, 4th Infantry Regiment and Afghan National Army soldier carry a wounded soldier after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off near Daychopan village in Zabul province, southeastern Afghanistan,Thursday, April 5, 2007. One Afghan national army soldier was wounded when a group of U.S. and Afghan soldiers were on their way to nab Talibain in the southeastern Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) http://www.newser.com/story/1132/iraq-is-breaking-the-army.htmlFri, 06 Apr 2007 08:47:45 CDT