U.S. General to Seek Combat Troops if Airstrikes Can’t Stop ISIS
By JEREMY W. PETERSSEPT. 16, 2014
WASHINGTON — Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress on Tuesday that he would recommend deploying United States combat forces against Islamic extremists in specific operations if the current strategy of airstrikes was not successful, raising the possibility of the kind of escalation that President Obama has flatly ruled out.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he said that while he was confident in the ability of the coalition of American, European and Middle Eastern governments to stop the Islamic State, he could not completely close the door to eventually asking Mr. Obama to commit ground troops to fight the group, known as ISIS or ISIL.
“My view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward. I believe that will prove true,” he said. “But if it fails to be true, and if there are threats to the United States, then I of course would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground forces.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/world/middleeast/isis-airstrikes-united-states-coalition.html
I’m still waiting for the day when one of these warmongers gets up in front of Congress and says that we don’t need more boots on the ground…
Warmongers? So what are your solutions to these foreign policy problems? Sing cumbayaya?
@ #1.
Nobody’s looking for a war but if these savages aren’t stomped out now where they are, they will bring the fight here to our soil.
Is that what you want?
9-11-2001 is a long time ago for the immediate pleasure, ADHD, short term memory generation…
Tom suggests that we let these factions work it out….
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/opinion/thomas-friedman-isis-and-the-arab-world.html?action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=MostEmailed&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article