Facing growing calls from Congressional hawks to escalate the war against ISIS with a dramatic increase in the number of ground troops, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter defended the current strategy of sending primarily special forces, insisting the US can’t “substitute” for a local force fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Carter added that ISIS “would love nothing more than a large presence of US forces,” saying it would not only greatly help ISIS recruitment, but that the US “could well turn those fighting ISIS or inclined to resist their rule into fighting us instead.”
Indeed, the US has already been risking that with its recent escalation of special forces units, with some Iraqi Shi’ite militias talking about changing their focus from fighting ISIS to resisting the return of US troops who occupied the country for so many years.
In Syria, the US options for sending more troops are even more limited, as apart from a Kurdish faction in the far northeast there are few US “allies” with any meaningful territory to be deployed into, and the US continues to resist any coordination with the Syrian government itself.
That's surprising.
But you already have RWNJ's
If you believe this garbage being fed to (us) masses about ISIS,
Saddam Hussein must had been pretty good keeping these (terrorists)
under control during his regime.
If these ISIS (terrorists) originated in Iraq as parroted by the
MSM, they could have taken out Saddam when he was bogged down
in his USG backed war with Iran. And again during Desert Storm.
This entire story (us) masses is getting is a pack of lies.
ISIS is comprised of Sunnis, many former Bathists, which is what Saddam Hussein was. Why would they have fought against their leader?
Whatever the case may be, there would be no ISIS without backing
from the USG and its war profiteers.
The Baathists were not religious extremists. The nonsense that ISIS were the Baathists is one of the many many many pack of lies that comprises The War On Terror. Thos does not even have the ring of truth to it, and it is illogical. Sadaam was the enemy of the islamists.
We were told that ISIS evolved out of Zarqawi's 'al Qaeda in Iraq'. But the Washington Post published a major expose in early 2006 that Zarkowi was a pentagon propaganda campaign. Google: Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi – Washington Post 4/10/06
If they are caught red handed feeding the American people bald faced war propoganda why would you believe anything they have to say about anything??
More importantly who let the *GENIE* out of its bottle and ISIS is now drawing them into this same conflict again with no hope of winning.OSB l shall bankrupt you and destroy your youth.
ISIS came about after the US destruction of Iraq.They did not exist before that.
The whole point might well to be to get Putin to send in ground forces, since he has the "ally" with the "territory". The more Putin bogs himself down, the better.