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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSo, a week since the President promised that he’d guard against “mission creep” and he’d avoid US troops’ “boots on the ground”, Marty Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs mentioned yesterday that he may have to recommend to the President he’d need maneuver units. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n “My view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward,” Dempsey said. “I believe that will prove true, but if it fails to be true and if there are threats to the United States, then I of course would go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground forces.” <\/p>\n The comment is a departure from what Obama vowed in his address to the nation a week ago, and from what the president’s top spokesman said just one day before Dempsey’s testimony. And it marks the latest mixed message to emerge from the administration on the fight against ISIS, which for weeks U.S. military advisers have described in more urgent and dire terms than others in the administration. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n They’ve been slowly cranking up the heat on this pot in which we’ve been boiilng, fellow lobsters. This isn’t the first time that we’ve heard this from the administration – we’re being conditioned to accept the eventuality of deployed combat troops in Iraq. <\/p>\n Dempsey provided one example of a scenario where he might recommend U.S. ground forces, saying they could be used to help Kurdish and Iraqi forces retake Mosul, now controlled by the Islamic State, or ISIS, by accompanying them or providing close-combat advice. <\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n “This won’t look like a ‘shock and awe’ campaign because that’s simply not how ISIL is organized, but it will be a persistent and sustainable campaign,” Dempsey said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n War by weasel words. By the way, that picture that I keep using for these posts was the “last convoy” out of Iraq – remember those days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"