Posted on 04/25/2016 4:05:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Obama outlined plans Monday to nearly quadruple the size of U.S. Special Operations forces in Syria to up to 300 troops, saying it was needed to keep up pressure on the Islamic State.
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The expanded U.S. military presence in Syria is aimed in part at helping to expand the ranks of Arab fighters in a network of groups, now dominated by Kurdish fighters, that the United States is backing as it battles the Islamic State. The additional U.S. forces work with Kurdish militiamen and others as they seek to isolate Raqqa, the militants’ de facto capital in Syria.
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Why does this idiot even say who they are? He has outed SEAL team six, DELTA, and now all advisors are SPECOPS. what a POS.
Quagmire.
Targets for just about every group including the Russians.
Drip...drip...drip.
Can we get some more details please?
ISIS called and they have a few questions
Why and on what authority are we invading a sovereign country against their will?
Arab Spring part 2?
In really, is Obama targeting ISIS or Damascus?
Like so much else these days.
Republicans doing it = scandal.
Democrats doing it = okay.
Dems start far more wars than do the Pubbies. And they are supposedly “Peace-nicks”.
They must be killing great numbers of bad guys if they are calling for more forces.
Clown Prince nobama is pulling-out all stops in his plan to murder US troops. His VA continues doing a job on Veterans with no consequences...except bonuses (if you call that consequences).
The additional U.S. forces work with Kurdish militiamen and others as they seek to isolate Raqqa, the militants' de facto capital in Syria.
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