I'd worry about the problems in Al Anbar province if the Marines left. While it'd be swapping one US service for another I imagine that the Shieks the Marines have been working with would probably prefer to keep working with the same people. I'd argue sort of the same thing in Afghanistan though there it probably wouldn't be too much of a difference seeing how there's so many different countries already that a switch of US services wouldn't be too bad.
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