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White House Isn't Ruling Out Ground Troops to Save Iraqis
By Michael D. Shear and Helene Cooper, The New York Times
13 August 14
senior White House official said on Wednesday that the United States would consider using American ground troops to assist Iraqis in rescuing Yazidi refugees if recommended by military advisers assessing the situation.
Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, told reporters on Marthas Vineyard that President Obama would probably receive recommendations in the next several days about how to mount a rescue operation to help the refugees, who are stranded on a mountaintop surrounded by Sunni militants. He said those recommendations could include the use of American ground troops.
But he drew a distinction between the use of American forces to help a humanitarian mission and the use of troops in the battle against militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, something he said the president had rejected before and continued to oppose.
By Michael D. Shear and Helene Cooper, The New York Times
13 August 14
senior White House official said on Wednesday that the United States would consider using American ground troops to assist Iraqis in rescuing Yazidi refugees if recommended by military advisers assessing the situation.
Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, told reporters on Marthas Vineyard that President Obama would probably receive recommendations in the next several days about how to mount a rescue operation to help the refugees, who are stranded on a mountaintop surrounded by Sunni militants. He said those recommendations could include the use of American ground troops.
But he drew a distinction between the use of American forces to help a humanitarian mission and the use of troops in the battle against militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, something he said the president had rejected before and continued to oppose.
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BOHICA (Original Post)
Jackpine Radical
Aug 2014
OP
What's the point of being president if you can't make decisions, isn't that why we elect
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#9
Cheney is always available as he, unfortunately IS not where he belongs, in jail.
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#10
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)1. time to dust off the cardboard signs
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leftstreet
(36,116 posts)4. Why can't they send in the $20BN trained Iraqi troops?
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)5. Probably because about half of them would defect to ISIS.
CincyDem
(6,390 posts)6. $20Bil just doesn't buy what it used to. Damned inflation. n/t
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)7. The question is - is "The White House" Obama or his staff?
I think his staff has to be prepared to show him all possible options; but he can reject certain options.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)9. What's the point of being president if you can't make decisions, isn't that why we elect
them, because we think they are the one who will make the best decisions for the country? Not the staff, not the cabinet, and with so many Repubs in this cabinet, I wouldn't want any advice from them.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)8. Are McNamara and Westmoreland available?
Oh. Too bad. It would be like old times.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)10. Cheney is always available as he, unfortunately IS not where he belongs, in jail.