{"id":67390,"date":"2016-08-11T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67390"},"modified":"2016-08-11T07:58:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:58:22","slug":"pentagon-admits-to-us-ground-forces-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67390","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon admits to US ground forces in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/291008-pentagon-acknowledges-us-ground-forces-supporting-isis-fight-in-libya\">The Hill<\/a> reports that the Pentagon admits that there are US ground forces &#8220;in and out&#8221; of Libya engaged in operations against ISIS there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those forces are based in joint operations rooms, away from the forward line, to facilitate coordination among Libyan forces fighting ISIS, [Deputy Defense press secretary Gordon Trowbridge] said. <\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon announced on Aug. 1 that it had expanded its air war against ISIS into Libya, where its fighters have established a foothold in Sirte. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, defense officials said there were no U.S. forces on the ground supporting the air operations, but did not deny there were U.S. forces on the ground there&#8230;&#8221;They are not on the front lines, nor are they on the ground in Sirte.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe if this administration had done it five years ago, they wouldn&#8217;t have to be doing it now &#8211; during an election year. Funny how putting off this stuff doesn&#8217;t make the problem go away. Neither does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/09\/isis-intel-was-cooked-house-panel-finds.html\">cooking the intel<\/a>. If this had been George Bush, we&#8217;d get this stuff crammed down our throats every half hour on the cable news shows. But, then, George Bush doesn&#8217;t have a Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Kristina Wong at The Hill reports that the Pentagon admits that there are US &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon admits to US ground forces in Libya\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67390\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon admits to US ground forces in Libya<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390","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=67390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}