{"id":57014,"date":"2014-12-10T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57014"},"modified":"2014-12-10T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T14:03:50","slug":"obama-wants-authorization-for-boots-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57014","title":{"rendered":"Obama wants authorization for “boots” in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that Secretary of State John Kerry has warned the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that they shouldn’t take tools out of the President’s tool box in regards to the use of force in Iraq and Syria against ISIS\/ISIL\/Islamic State;<\/p>\n

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is weighing a war authorization after months of U.S. airstrikes, and amid growing concerns that lawmakers are obligated to take a stronger stand on the future of operations. The committee will on Thursday debate a bill that limits the war to three years and bars the use of ground forces.<\/p>\n

Kerry told the committee that President Barack Obama is open to language in an authorization that clarifies how combat forces may be used and still does not plan to deploy ground troops.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not mean we should pre-emptively bind the hands of the commander-in-chief or our commanders in the field in responding to scenarios and contingencies that are impossible to foresee,\u201d Kerry said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More accurately, instead of “contingencies that are impossible to foresee”, Kerry should have said “shit we choose to ignore until it makes us look bad”. And it was this administration that took troops off the table in the first place, wasn’t it? Remember “no boots on the ground”? <\/p>\n

And, oh, yeah, Kerry ran for president in 2004 promising to withdraw from Iraq, and now he’s the guy telling us that we need to be ready to send troops back. His boss is stripping the Defense Department to the bone so there will be no one to deploy to Iraq. Reality is tougher than campaign promises, ain’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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