Posted on 01/29/2024 1:44:05 PM PST by george76
In a press briefing on Jan. 17, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said, “I’m not aware of any US forces on the ground.”
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Troops are on the ground in Yemen, according to a report from the White House. When asked if there was a presence there, the Pentagon refused to acknowledge the reality earlier in January.
“A small number of United States military personnel are deployed to Yemen to conduct operations against al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula and ISIS,” the White House told Congress in a December 7 report.
In a press briefing on Jan. 17, Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder was asked if he could say with confidence that troops were not on the ground in Yemen. He responded, saying, “I’m not aware of any US forces on the ground.”
After reporting on the contradiction, the Intercept reached out for comment from the US Department of Defense.
“Maj Gen Ryder’s prior assertion that there are no US forces on the ground in Yemen remains accurate,” DoD spokesman Lt. Col. Bryon McGarry told the outlet after the report's publication.
Erik Sperling, the executive director of Just Foreign Policy, told reporters, “It’s possible that US forces are spread so widely around the globe that not even the professional tasked with knowing that can keep track of it all."
“But it’s also possible that, given the dramatic expansion in US presence in the region in recent months, he is trying to skirt the question to avoid greater scrutiny," he continued.
That is where the two Navy Seals were actually killed, MIA or captured.
The US maintains a couple of modernization programs with the Saudi military. I was assigned to one during Desert Storm. If the Saudi military is engaged in operations against Terrorists in Yemen there are American civilians and military there, also.
We have been conducting clandestine ops longer than you or I have been alive.
The pentagon press spokesman gained a rank in the space of two sentences.
Nice gig !
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Yep....and don’t be surprised when they have to admit they have them on the ground in the Ukraine, too.
I would fully assume we have military personnel in The Ukraine. But The Ukraine is not lobbing missiles at US.
As KJP said, they are fighting and dying for this administration.
You are comparing apples to dill pickles.
The open border is to increase the population of the City States to eliminate the Black plague as a political force
“As KJP said, they are fighting and dying for this administration.”
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Totally despicable. These people think all the resources of the government are there to serve THEM.
We have clandestine operations to protect US interests; they are not undertaken on behalf of a “world police.” 99% of the clandestine ops pass without anyone knowing about them.
“Joe Biden does not plan to be there when the dead return from overseas either. He is a rotten POS.”
He is that.
Lol, “US interests.”
Who the hell are to question what he can "judge?"
Scumbag.
Ah, you imply that countries have no national interests that are worth protecting. Says a lot about you.
Also, our country's "interests??"
From what I can see, there are huge numbers of people in my "country" who have "interests" that have no observable connection to my "interests."
But, please, continue to throw out your vapid nonsense, if it keeps you off the streets.
A country’s interests are many and varied. Those interests may not be yours; and that seems to be the source of your angst. So, don’t flatter yourself that the country should put its efforts into protecting your own personal and singular interests; the country does not revolve around you, no matter how much you think it should.
Get it, kid?
Still haven’t defined a single one.
Are you really that simple?
National interests relate to things that seek to secure our safety, maintain our position in the world, including advancing it: In other words, security. ANYTHING that provides security or opportunity for the US is a national interest; just as they would for any country. Some of the efforts on behalf of national interests are overt; some are “behind the scenes;” and some are clandestine or surreptitious.
Examples? Maintaining freedom of the seas; strengthening our economy; fighting terrorism; interdicting illicit drug trafficking. The list goes on and on.
All while allowing enemy combantants to flood over our border.
Hey, I don’t agree with everything the government does; and on the border issue I am firmly opposed to what the feds are doing. It’s easy for you to isolate one particular issue; but reality is much, much broader than that.
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