Report: Defense Department Considering Sending Conventional Ground Troops Into Syria
Source: Slate
FEB. 15 2017 4:45 PM
By Osita Nwanevu
CNN reported Wednesday afternoon that the Defense Department is, for the first time, considering making a proposal to send conventional American combat troops into northern Syria to fight ISIS. The network's Barbara Starr said that the Pentagon’s considerations were prompted by President Trump’s demand for a plan to defeat ISIS by the end of February. The proposal has not yet been sent to Trump.
As on all issues, Trump has made conflicting statements on how he would like to tackle ISIS in Syria. In March 2016, he said during a debate that he would listen to the recommendations of "the generals" who he said had recommended 20,000 to 30,000 American troops on the ground. In July of the same year, though, he said he'd send "very few" troops into the fight. The U.S. has around 500 troops, tasked largely with assisting the Syrian opposition, in the country as of December.
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Congress and there "Kids" on this..........................lets bring back the f**king draft, so that everyone can feel the love of possibly getting killed----------------like they / we did in Vietnam...................
They keep forgetting for some strange reason of hypocrisy that Congress has to authorize this "stuff" lets see a f**king vote for accountability, it is after all in the Constitution, that's these people swore to uphold
This just BS, and this sexual commander in chief is going to listen to his "generals" really------------look at how well this team did in the National Security Agency and in other positions of crimes being committed by this team, this right wing fascist congress and senate
during the campaign that they were scared Hillary would get us into WW III.
