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.
What he really means is to fight Assad and help ISIS.
Sure, if Meghan goes first!
Beat me to it...damn you! lol
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.
But John, two years ago you were telling us to give them guns....
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.
If our founders were around today they would be pointing at McCain as being one example of what they warned against.
Not so much as one toe of one boot.
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?
I’m increasingly open to the idea of turning mecca into a pool of molten glass.
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.
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...
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.
Somebody tell McCain he’s not Commander in chief. And never will be!!!
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.
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