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McCain urges 'boots on the ground' to combat IS
Space Wars ^ | Jan 19, 2015

Posted on 01/20/2015 10:29:18 AM PST by robowombat

. McCain urges 'boots on the ground' to combat IS by Staff Writers Jerusalem Jan 19, 2015

US Senator John McCain on Monday urged the deployment of international ground forces to combat jihadists in Syria and Iraq, as he toured the Middle East with a Senate delegation.

"For months we've been bombing (Syrian border town) Kobane and we still haven't driven ISIS out," the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman told reporters in Jerusalem, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.

"Since the air campaign started... ISIS has increased their size and areas of control.

"The reality is, we need more boots on the ground... we need intelligence, we need special forces, and we can't treat Iraq and Syria as different battlegrounds because it's the same enemy," McCain said.

"We are going to have to have an aircraft exclusionary zone which provides a buffer in order for us to not only train and equip (rebels), but to take care of refugees," he added.

IS began its offensive on Kobane in mid-September and came close to overrunning the town. But Kurdish fighters, backed by a steady campaign of US-led air strikes, have gradually recaptured territory.

McCain was heading a delegation of US senators on a trip to the region that included visits to Israel, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The US military is to send more than 400 troops to train Syrian rebel forces as part of a long-planned effort to build up a moderate opposition to take on IS.

The training will take place in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar and is expected to start in the "early spring," the Pentagon says.

But President Barack Obama, wary of having the US drawn into the multi-sided civil war in Syria, has been accused by some rebel groups, lawmakers and allies of moving too slowly to help the Syrian opposition.

US troops have already started training Iraqi government and Kurdish forces in the fight against the IS jihadists, with about 2,100 Americans deployed to Iraq.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bootsontheground; isis; mccain
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1 posted on 01/20/2015 10:29:18 AM PST by robowombat
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What he really means is to fight Assad and help ISIS.


2 posted on 01/20/2015 10:31:25 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: robowombat

Sure, if Meghan goes first!


3 posted on 01/20/2015 10:31:52 AM PST by Obadiah (If the RINOs engineer the 2016 Primary for their guy, I will sit out the General for my guy.)
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Beat me to it...damn you! lol


4 posted on 01/20/2015 10:33:58 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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McCain’s ignorance and mistakes lead to him being a POW, right?

Now his same ignorance will lead to Americans getting killed in Shitcanistan by The Islamic State.

I say we strap a parachute to Johnny-boy and drop him somewhere in some muzzie hell-hole.


5 posted on 01/20/2015 10:34:12 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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But John, two years ago you were telling us to give them guns....


6 posted on 01/20/2015 10:34:39 AM PST by struggle
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John what size boot do your and your lets go fight another war, buddies wear?

I will buy your combat boots, if you go fight or go have another discussion with the ISIS serial killers.


7 posted on 01/20/2015 10:35:19 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Will French, German & Belgians make anti-terror raids on our White House, AG Dept and Homeland Sec.?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If our founders were around today they would be pointing at McCain as being one example of what they warned against.


8 posted on 01/20/2015 10:35:24 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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No "boots on the ground" as long as they are forced to fight under the candy a$$ rules of engagement which applied during the Bush and Obama administrations.

Not so much as one toe of one boot.

9 posted on 01/20/2015 10:35:49 AM PST by Eric Pode of Croydon
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"John, it depends on what the definition of IS is!"


10 posted on 01/20/2015 10:39:09 AM PST by TexasCajun
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Let Saudi Arabia take care of them. Do they not have a military? It IS in their backyard and all.

Why do WE have to go around fixing everyone’s dammed problems?


11 posted on 01/20/2015 10:39:42 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

I’m increasingly open to the idea of turning mecca into a pool of molten glass.


12 posted on 01/20/2015 10:41:40 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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13 posted on 01/20/2015 10:45:51 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Let Saudi Arabia take care of them. Do they not have a military?

The Saudis have a deliberately weak and divided military. If it was as big as their wealth could make it an ambitious general would use the force to topple the Royal House. When the House of Saud feels there is a need for muscle to protect the crown as with the new border wall, the money pours out and what needs to be done is done quickly. Generally the Feringhi are called in to do the work.

14 posted on 01/20/2015 10:49:42 AM PST by robowombat
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Women in Congress - “Bras in Chambers”

Hey McCain those ‘boots’ are humans - they’re Americas sons, daughters, husbands and wives. The term ‘soldier’ is also acceptable...


15 posted on 01/20/2015 10:53:13 AM PST by GOPJ (Radical Muslims are the 'brutish light-fearing Morlocks' of the Islamic political duality)
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To: robowombat

Can anyone imagine what our military presence and exposure would look like if we actually sent troops to every place John McCain advocated sending troops? They’d be fighting in half the countries in the world at this point and our military budget would probably have to be 2 or 3 trillion a year.


17 posted on 01/20/2015 10:58:02 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Somebody tell McCain he’s not Commander in chief. And never will be!!!


18 posted on 01/20/2015 10:59:03 AM PST by McGruff (We have met the enemy and they are our own party.)
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I remember when this a-hole wanted to put boots on the ground in Kosovo in 1999, 16 years ago.

He was insane then.

Give him an Iraqi jet to fight with—maybe he can make it 6 for 6.


19 posted on 01/20/2015 11:00:42 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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20 posted on 01/20/2015 11:01:30 AM PST by McGruff (We have met the enemy and they are our own party.)
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