President Obama’s previous pledges of “no boots on the ground” in Iraq seem to be fading, and it isn’t clear what sort of shoes they’ll actually be wearing, but Special Forces are expected to be deployed to Iraq very soon.
Instead of worrying about the boots on the ground promise, White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden seems to be shifting to the promise of “no combat troops” made over the weekend, and insisting the Special Forces won’t technically be “combat troops.”
What exactly they will be isn’t clear, but some sort of combination of “trainers” and “advisers” seems to be the plan right now, though that’s likely just the usual pretext to get the first troops there before sending more.
Earlier, officials had suggested that only a shipment of weapons and air strikes were seriously being considered, but recently the rhetoric has escalated, with an eye on getting the US more directly involved in Iraq’s growing war.
This is empire divide and conquer at its best. China and Russia are making great strides to defang the U.S. Dollar as the world reserve currency. China has won many oil contracts in Iraq. So, the only two options the Corrupt U.S. empire has is to use their proxy violent Jihadists to foment instability in the two very countries defying the U.S. It seems that where ever a satellite nation trys to go on its own gets a visit from violent Sunni Jihadist groups. This is controlled chaos. Now Obama can come in as hero when he helped create the conditions there.
Special forces will be useless as trainers at this point, time is not on your side f they are already banging on Baghdad's doorstep.
It's hard to say which is more insulting, that the Obama admin tries to claim elite combat troops aren't combat troops, or that he thinks we'll believe it. Look out, Iraq, US "help" is on the way.
Special forces at this stage in the game might be a case of too little too late. Isn't ISIS banging on Baghdad's door?
Didn't Kennedy start the whole Vietnam thing with special forces? That snowballed into the Vietnam disaster. History seems to be repeating itself.
Will be pretty awkward if these “not combat troops’ receive hostile fire pay and whatnot during their upcoming sojourn in Iraq.
Everybody who is in Iraq – even the secretaries in the Embassy are probably getting hazardous duty pay…which really doesn't amount to much anyway. But you can count on these "non-combat troops" carrying loaded weapons.
See how "special" they are when they come back in boxes.
Hopefully they will join the winning side and get rid of the current corrupt puppet-government.
special forces, isis must be shivering & shaking