{"id":52212,"date":"2014-06-25T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52212"},"modified":"2014-06-24T17:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T21:51:36","slug":"90-troops-arrive-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52212","title":{"rendered":"90 troops arrive in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/90-additional-us-troops-deployed-to-iraq-1.290468\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports the arrival of 90 troops in Iraq to assess the situation and to decide where best to send the troops who will follow them;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The assessment teams will help the Obama administration and the Pentagon learn more about the state of the Iraqi security forces, the situation on the ground, and ISIL\u2019s activities. They will also make recommendations about how to proceed with the advisory mission. Their initial assessments are expected to be completed in two or three weeks, [Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John] Kirby said.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby was asked whether waiting two or three weeks for an initial assessment is too leisurely, given the speed with which ISIL is moving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody shares the sense of urgency here about what is going on inside Iraq,\u201d Kirby said. \u201c[But] this isn\u2019t about rushing to the rescue, OK? This is \u2013 it\u2019s a measured, deliberate approach to help us and [the Iraqi security forces] get better eyes on the situation and what they\u2019re facing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that ISIS is working on a schedule that will accommodate that of the perfumed princes at the Puzzle Palace. They claim that they have been flying 30 to 35 manned and unmanned aircraft reconnaissance missions for the last few weeks, but I guess they can&#8217;t tell much from that, you know because ISIS is about 35 miles from Baghdad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports the arrival of 90 troops in Iraq to assess the situation and &hellip; <a title=\"90 troops arrive in Iraq\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52212\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">90 troops arrive in Iraq<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}