Less than 24 hours after appearing on the BBC to publicly “rule out” sending any ground troops to Syria, President Obama has announced his decision to send another 250 ground troops to Syria, saying it proves that the US considers fighting ISIS a “priority.”
Obama said the ground troops would “develop relationships with local tribes,” but declined to detail their mission beyond that. The troops are expected to be embedded with the Kurdish YPG, where some 50 other US troops already are.
In an interview with Charlie Rose, incredibly, President Obama presented the decision to send 250 more ground troops as not “sending ground troops in to fight,” though he refused to rule out the possibility of them fighting, and they’re definitely being sent in.
The Kurdish group the troops will embed with, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which consists of the YPG and a few hundred Christian militia members, welcomed the idea of sending more ground troops, but also pushed for the US to send them more weapons, complaining the US shipments so far have been just ammunition, and they want missiles.
The only legal force in Syria is the Syrian Arab Army so what obama is doing is illegal unless he received a private yes nod from Assad.
Kurds do not really want them, but have no choice. A base is being built there. The purpose is to create a foothold however small, to insure low-burning conflict lasts. But it will also be a tripwire — and problems will arise from it. Why is this all necessary? Because bureaucrats do not have any business sense. A business oriented person will look at the loss/gain in any situation, and if a losing proposition, but bureaucrats never spend their own money, so they will push on. Bureaucrats care only for control, and any appearance of the loss of control — will make them double down on gambling. Instead of letting Syrian forces liberate the territory with some help from the air, it looks like Al-Qaeda/Al-Nusra has been promoted to the status of “rebel”. And from Kurdish territory, there will be help coming to Al-Nusra. This is a risky move, as the cease fire does not apply to Al-Nusra and ISIS, so bombing their positions is a free game. This is a spider web of lies, and sooner or later, our soldiers will be discovering who exactly are they there to protect. Not a good plan, not at all. Those are your Trump voters.
Let’s see…the US is going to embed with the Kurdish YPG. Hey, aren’t the YPG the group Erdogan is trying to wipe out – and is currently shelling whenever he can? So, what happens when Turkish bombs/missiles “accidentally” kill a couple of American “trainers?” Does Obama overlook that transgression by a NATO member and supposed ally?
Nov 20, 2015 The One Thing You Need to Know About ISIS, ‘Americans please wake up!’
https://youtu.be/vkxFT_hJCdQ
http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf
And another 100 to the Sinai says what?
Did not here about the Siani.
And as for embedding troops with the YPG Erdogan will surely undermine that effort.
President Obama has become precisely the kind of war-mongering, lawless, lying, power-crazed tool of the military-industrial complex whom he rightly denounced as Candidate Obama in 2008. It is tragic that our first Black President turned out to be just one more in a procession of amoral evildoers using the White House for personal aggrandizement and profit. And so it goes here in the Land of the Cowed and Home of the Craven.