{"id":63049,"date":"2015-12-01T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63049"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:42:19","slug":"white-house-to-send-troops-into-combat-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63049","title":{"rendered":"White House to send more troops into combat against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that Ashton Carter, the Secretary of Defense, told Congress yesterday that the White House authorized that special forces in Iraq will directly engage ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, in contradiction to the policy they expressed earlier this year;<\/p>\n

The special operators will assist the Iraqis and peshmerga forces as well as conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture Islamic State leaders, according to Carter\u2019s testimony to the House Armed Services Committee. The secretary also said the United States also could increase the number of military trainers in Iraq and special operators deployed to Syria.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn full coordination with the government of Iraq, we\u2019re deploying a specialized expeditionary targeting force to assist Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga forces and to put even more pressure on [the Islamic State group],\u201d Carter told the committee in written testimony. \u201cThese special operators will over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture [Islamic State] leaders. That creates a virtuous cycle of better intelligence, which generates more targets, more raids, and more momentum.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, if they’d done that from the beginning instead of hemming and hawing about the implications of deploying troops back to Iraq (since they never should have left in the first place) maybe ISIS wouldn’t have slaughtered so many innocent people. I’m pretty sure that this new mission and injection of more troops into the region will be pointless, though, since their ROE won’t let them actually kill people – they’ll have to drop fliers telling them to take cover or something before the pain arrives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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