Though the Pentagon has denied previous reports that US ground troops in the Anbar Province had engaged in any combat with ISIS, they today conceded that those 320 troops at the Ayn al-Asad airbase are under fire from ISIS on a “regular basis.”
So far, they are only facing indirect mortar fire from ISIS fighters in the region, but with reports of ISIS expanding closer to the base, that may get more and more dangerous.
For now, however, the Pentagon is shrugging off the attacks as “ineffective,” and says there has not only been no injury from any ISIS strikes on the US, but no damage to US equipment there either.
Pentagon officials do, however, continue to insist the troops have a “inherent right of self-defense,” and with those ground troops stuck right in the middle of the most war-torn province in Iraq, that’s going to mean increased fighting going forward.
Though the Obama Administration insists they have no intention of getting into a ground war in Iraq, they’ve put the troops on a base that ensures growing conflict, and excuses to escalate.
Well, everything seems to be going exactly as planned, don't you think? By the time the 2016 election rolls around the US will be fully involved in a ground shooting war in Iraq, again, in the place a previous "occupant" had claimed had been a successful mission – huge banner and all. And in all probability, this new iteration of the now famous "no troops on the ground" ground war will also include Syria and Lebanon and if Israel gets their way, Iran. And once the next "occupant" moves in, the keg will be lit and the Gods help the survivors, if there are any.
Hear it straight from the horses mouth so to speak!
General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned – Seven Countries In Five Years
"This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don't show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn't show you that memo! I didn't show it to you!"
War — The most permanent thing on earth
At age 17, I joined my brother and off we went to the Vietnam War. So looking around, I see not hardly a thing in war has changed, for the better or for the worse.
Who Is REALLY Behind ISIS? Sep 26, 2014
As bombs start dropping in Syria and Iraq, the world is once again being asked to cower in fear of a shadowy terror group that most people hadn't heard of just a few months ago. But even the most cursory examination of ISIS's past, its connections, and the actors populating it reveal a very different story than the one we are being asked to believe in. Fake terrorists. Foreign backers. False flags.
Meet the new boogeyman, same as the old boogeyman.
That's terrible, attacking foreign invaders in your own backyard war zone. The nerve! The humanity!
Really? Did the best and brightest minds in Washington really think our troops would be left alone?
“inherent right of self-defense,”…
If you can be ordered not to return fire, etc., that's not strictly true. Just a sloppy statement from someone making appeals to principles that should (but, perhaps, effectively don't) apply within the US.
At least a month ago the Al-Arabia paper reported that US flown Apache gun ships had been used to stop an ISIS attack south of Baghdad. At least two months ago the US explained that "Air Traffic Controllers" were not considered to be in combat situations. Most people should have seen through that BS statement. Those traffic controllers were really Special OPS troops calling in air strikes on ISIS.