A top Air Force commander has been quoted in USA Today tonight saying that any expansion of the ISIS air war into Syria is going to require US special operations forces on the ground, inside Syria.
“It’s absolutely crucial that pilots are talking to an American on the ground” to verify what’s being targeted, the commander insisted. President Obama has repeatedly rejected the idea of boots on the ground, despite sending more and more troops to Iraq.
In last night’s speech, President Obama gave the impression that the “coalition” being assembled was going to be doing the heavy lifting on the ground. That’s not actually the case, however.
Secretary of State John Kerry, while trying to hype the “critical role” of the coalition members, today admitted that not a single member of this broad coalition was even talking about sending ground troops for the war.
Indeed, many of the nations appear to be little more than a cheering section for the US war, with even Turkey, touted as one of the most indispensable allies, won’t even let the US operate out of their airbases.
This means Obama’s new war is very much on America’s shoulders at this point, with Army commanders believing that the US is in a state of “perpetual conflict,” and that the ISIS war is going to be expanding more in the weeks and months to come.
Bombs dropped from the air will never win you a war, never have before. Putting soldiers on the ground will increase ISIS popularity and recruitment. Poor Obama, he's facing defeat before he could even start a war.
Islamic State — It has a valid point
In order to live at peace with The Islamic State, we would have to stop our teenage girls from running loose after dark, outlaw skin-tight cloths that allow every teenage boy in the neighborhood to know the curve and shape of every woman’s buttocks in the neighborhood, give up the pleasure of divorce court and make marriage agreements binding for life, stop our wars of aggression for plunder and give up the greatest money maker known to man — trading war materials for Middle-East oil.
The way I see it, America have troop on ground in Syria, they're called, ISIS.
Isis are used as an excuse to enter Syria the last Russian foot hold in the middle
East and once Syria is under control, Lebanon's Hezbollah is taking care of and
Next is Iran and then they'll work on Russia and then will come china's turn?
ISIS numbering in tens of thousands, where they came from, just look at their uniforms, it will take company's to make so many uniforms, flags and let's not
Forget all the food they would need, the arms and munitions, Transportations
And number of things a foot soldier would need to fight a war in so many fronts,
There has to be more than one powerful country supporting this outfit and I wonder
Who.
Well, I've been saying here for years that the entire purpose of the Syria crisis was to degrade Syria's military so that Israel can attack Lebanon through Syrian territory to degrade Hizballah – all as a prelude to war with Iran. Obama can been steadfast in trying to get that Syria war started (without actually being BLAMED for doing so in order to protect his Nobel Peace Prize.) He got outwitted by Putin last year over the chemical weapons nonsense, so this year he's resorting to the "we need to fight them there so we don't have to fight them here" ploy – which I also predicted would be resorted to if no other way could be found.
So here we are, moving into a regional war which will result in the destruction of Iraq (again), Syria, Lebanon and eventually Iran.
Told ya so.