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2015-11-10 Home Front: WoT
More US troops possible in Syria: Pentagon chief
[AlAhram] More US troops could "absolutely" be deployed to Syria if Washington identifies more "capable local forces" as partners in the fight against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said in an interview aired Sunday.

Carter's comments to ABC News came about a week after the White House announced the deployment of "fewer than 50" special operations personnel in the north of the war-ravaged nation, in a bid to strengthen forces battling IS fighters.

"In order to have victory stick, you have to have local forces involved who can keep the peace after you've helped them win the peace," Carter said in an interview taped aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the South China Sea.

"Now those are hard to find in Iraq and Syria," he told the "This Week" news program.

"If we find additional groups that are willing to fight ISIL and are capable and motivated, we'll do more. The president has indicated a willingness to do more, I certainly am prepared to recommend he do more, but you need to have capable local forces -- that's the key to sustainable victory."

When asked if that could mean more American forces on the ground, Carter replied: "Absolutely."
Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top
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#1 Past time for Congress to table the officer promotion lists. They can get their offices and titles and pay hikes from Caesar.

Once is a tragedy, twice is a farce. Marxist have no history to learn from.
Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-10 05:30||   2015-11-10 05:30|| Front Page Top

#2 We will brief the press at 5 pm each day at the Hotel California Bar and Grill.
Posted by Shipman 2015-11-10 08:02||   2015-11-10 08:02|| Front Page Top

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