{"id":54543,"date":"2014-08-13T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54543"},"modified":"2014-08-13T16:12:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:12:53","slug":"imagine-the-roe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54543","title":{"rendered":"Imagine the ROE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/a> reports that the President may decide in the next “several days” what he wants to do to rescue the Yazidis, the sect which is trapped on Mount Sinjar in Iraq by ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State troops. Here, you sort out this shit;<\/p>\n

Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, told reporters on Martha\u2019s Vineyard that President Obama would probably receive recommendations in the next several days about how to mount a rescue operation to help the refugees, who are stranded on a mountaintop surrounded by Sunni militants. He said those recommendations could include the use of American ground troops.<\/p>\n

But he drew a distinction between the use of American forces to help a humanitarian mission and the use of troops in the battle against militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, something he said the president had rejected before and continued to oppose.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he\u2019s ruled out is reintroducing U.S. forces into combat on the ground in Iraq,\u201d Mr. Rhodes said. He added, using an alternative name for the militant group, that the deployment of ground troops to assist a rescue was \u201cdifferent than reintroducing U.S. forces in a combat role to take the fight to ISIL.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, right from the start I have no confidence in anything coming out of that statement. The President will *probably* receive recommendations in *the next several days* about what to do. And the lawyers are focusing on what the definition of *combat* is. This is a rescue from a mountainous region, so I’m guess that there are no airstrips that they can secure so it involves rotary wing aircraft flying over the armed enemy at some point. Do you think the enemy will hold their fire because it’s a rescue mission and not a *combat* operation?<\/p>\n

Given that heavily lawyered-up statement above, I can only imagine what the rules of engagement will look like. I’m not a religious person, but I’m praying like crazy for the poor fellows who will offer themselves for the operation.<\/p>\n

From MSN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Among the possibilities are helicopter airlifts and establishing a protected corridor to escort refugees to safety. While acknowledging that “there are dangers involved in any military situation,” Rhodes sought to distinguish a humanitarian rescue mission from deploying combat troops with the aim of “taking the fight to ISIL.<\/p>\n

“Those dangers were tragically illuminated when an Iraqi helicopter delivering aid to the Yazidis crashed on Tuesday, killing the pilot and injuring others, including a reporter for The New York Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, those poor troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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