{"id":58231,"date":"2015-02-13T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58231"},"modified":"2015-02-13T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T15:13:34","slug":"us-troops-have-isis-right-where-they-want-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58231","title":{"rendered":"US troops have ISIS right where they want them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/02\/13\/middleeast\/isis-iraq\/index.html\">CNN reports<\/a> that US troops in Ayn al-Assad Air Base have allowed ISIS to surround them so that they can begin eliminating Islamic State fighters systematically.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ISIS fighters seized Al-Baghdadi, northwest of the capital of Baghdad, on Friday after attacking from three directions against Iraqi government forces, the security officials told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Ayn al-Assad, the largest military base in western Anbar province still under government control, is also where U.S. instructors train Iraqi pilots.<br \/>\nISIS launches attacks on multiple fronts in Iraq<\/p>\n<p>Already, the air base is taking sporadic indirect fire from militants using rocket launchers and mortars, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Two security officials in the Anbar provincial office told CNN that security forces inside Ayn al-Assad killed eight suicide bombers Friday who were trying to breach the air base&#8217;s perimeter from the direction of Al-Baghdadi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, the Chinese thought they had the Marines surrounded at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea, too. The Germans had the 101st Airborne Division surrounded at Bastogne. How did those battles work out?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. defense official&#8230;reiterated what has been said many times publicly by Pentagon officials: That U.S. forces retain the right to defend themselves if necessary, but at this point there have been no injuries to U.S. forces at the airbase and there is no change in status.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how that &#8220;no boots on the ground&#8221; thing changes overnight isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that US troops in Ayn al-Assad Air Base have allowed ISIS to surround them &hellip; <a title=\"US troops have ISIS right where they want them\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58231\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US troops have ISIS right where they want them<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58231","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=58231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}