{"id":54622,"date":"2014-08-18T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54622"},"modified":"2014-08-18T14:27:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T18:27:53","slug":"engle-we-may-have-some-boots-on-the-ground-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54622","title":{"rendered":"Engel: “we may have some boots on the ground” in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eliot Engel, the New York Democrat Congressman who is the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Fox News yesterday that we may need “boots on the ground” eventually in Iraq, according to The Hill<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, we may have some boots on the ground there,\u201d he said on “Fox News Sunday.”<\/p>\n

Engel, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, added \u201cthat\u2019s not something I want,\u201d but said there are no easy choices. The U.S. can’t \u201cput our head in the sand,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Engel has consistently been more hawkish than President Obama, and called for U.S. airstrikes in Syria last summer after the chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From the Fox News transcript<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Well, I don’t think we’re going to put boots on the ground the way we we did before in Iraq. I don’t think anybody really wants to do that. But we do have some boots on the ground right now, and frankly, we need to do everything we can to repel ISIS. I don’t think we have the luxury of putting our heads in the sand and saying, well, it’s over there and we’re not going to do it. I think what we’re doing now is effective and we are going to do more of it and ultimately we may have some boots on the ground there. Not something I want, but you know what, we have that choices and the worse choice is to do nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CBS reports<\/a> that Engel isn’t the only one getting us mentally prepared to accept a third war in Iraq for US troops;<\/p>\n

Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson have each warned that fighters pouring into Iraq, some of them American, could be radicalized by their experience on the battlefield and return to plan attacks at home. But despite those concerns, Zarate warned, the U.S. “seems not to be acting with the urgency to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat this network the way that we did post-9\/11 with al Qaeda.”<\/p>\n

“Putting the Humpty Dumpty of the Iraqi state back together is important, but it’s not going to solve the immediate problem of the growing strength of [ISIS],” he said.<\/p>\n

“Containment looks like defeat,” added Jeffrey. “You can’t contain these guys. You try to contain them, and you’re going to have hundreds of thousands of young men from across the Middle East either joining them or causing unrest in their own countries.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not thinking that they’ll be anymore committed to defeating radical Islam in Iraq anymore than they are at defeating it in Afghanistan. Their time to defeat ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State troops was months ago and they missed that window of opportunity with their dithering and hand-wringing. I don’t think the American people are going to get behind another deployment to Iraq under any circumstances. Especially from this President and his rudderless administration. The only thing he can be counted on is for another political decision to half-ass any involvement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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