Posted on 09/16/2014 9:26:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Testifying on Capitol Hill Tuesday in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey said that although "we're not there yet," the United States may eventually need to deploy U.S. ground troops to fight ISIS if a coalition and airstrikes fail to get the job done against the terror army.
“My view at this point is that this coalition is the appropriate way forward. I believe that will prove true but if it fails to be true and if there are threats to the United States then I of course would go back to the President and make a recommendation that we include the use of U.S. military ground forces. To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the president," Dempsey said.
Gen. Martin Dempsey: US May Send in Ground Troops to Fight ISIS
President Obama has been adamant about keeping U.S. combat troops from re-engaging in conflict in Iraq. Currently 1600 U.S. troops and military personnel are stationed in Iraq as advisors to local forces. Last week in a speech to the nation, Obama said he was sending nearly 500 more advisors to the region.
Thanks to Jim Hoft for the video.
Congress should say...
... as if Congress would ever do anything
I’m not sure I’d believe anything this guy has to say. Personally, I think he’s a weasel.
He means when it fails.
Why do we need to go in there?
If this ‘terror army’ is such a problem, why don’t the people of the region, or at least people who live closer than 5,000 miles + an ocean away form a coalition and do something about it?
Why is Europe so calm about all this and we’re running around with our hair on fire?
Prolly doesn’t matter as his career will soon be over.
I can’t believe you are that ignorant
We said it, we knew it, creeping battle coming, we’re going back to Iraq.
What a cluster.....
I must be a dumbass too. I feel the same way.
This is what happens when you pull troops for a political stunt before you finish the job, you end up having to go back and fix it.
This is all on Obama’s head.
Before risking MORE American lives, why don’t we bomb ISIS’ oil fields?
You’re falling for this cr@p?
We are just going to end up arming more terrorists over there.
It’s time to face that we don’t know what we are doing and never have known what we were doing in the Middle East and other Muslim nations. We’ve done NOTHING but create more problems ... not that there wouldn’t have been plenty anyway, but not ours.
Let the people most at risk defend themselves. If they refuse that tells me what I need to know ... we will be hated and worse for intervening.
Did Kuwait every thank us? I seem to remember just after they were ‘liberated’ they were burning American flags and crying jihad against Americans.
You can have all that if you want it ... which it seems you do.
oh i agree, all i am saying is, its Obama’s fault for cutting and running and not finishing the mess off in the first place.
Actions have consequences.
Our military’s going to be infected with Ebola... and our country too... because idiots like General Martin Dempsey don’t have the balls to stand up to Obama and the bureaucracy...
I wouldn’t believe any General these days. All the good ones have been removed or ‘retired’, the rest are political hacks.
AMEN...I agree.
Exactly
Perpetual war for perpetual peace.
Obama will leave office and it will forever be a republican war.
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