Posted on 03/21/2026 7:54:06 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
In near-daily briefings with top military officials at the White House, President Donald Trump has reviewed options that include sending American troops into Iran.
The decision whether to go ahead is perhaps his most difficult of the war since US strikes began February 28.
For many Trump allies in Washington, the deployment of thousands of US troops to the Middle East would mean the swift end of their public support for the war— and likely threaten the administration’s ability to deliver the hundreds of billions of dollars in supplemental funding the White House will soon seek.
But for Trump, fully realizing his objectives and mitigating the war’s fallout could require sending in American troops, a legacy-defining endeavor the president — while not ruling it out — tried to downplay this week.
“I’m not putting troops anywhere,” Trump said Thursday in the Oval Office. “If I were, I certainly wouldn’t tell you.”
As Trump’s war in Iran enters its fourth week, pressure is mounting for a better picture of how the conflict will conclude. The economic repercussions have led many of Trump’s Republican allies, staring down a tough political road to the midterm elections in November, to urge him to find a way out.
Exactly how that happens is still largely unknown. Trump appeared to tacitly acknowledge the misgivings about his endgame on Friday evening when he said he would “consider winding down” the war soon, even as new Marine units were headed toward the region.
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Send the Japanese Self-Defense Force to do the job. They would be self-defending their own oil supply, yes?
“We’re going to grease our tracks with their guts”
Have our soldiers wear “CNN” patches on their uniforms.
Japan should launch a suprise attack. They are good at surprises.
Folks don’t want this war:
“G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers notes that 58% of Americans think the U.S. military operation in Iran is a bad use of taxpayer dollars, while only 32% approve.”
They need to get rid of the fanatical IRGC which can quickly assume cell structures in order to wait things out. If they remain, it doesn’t matter how much Iran is weakened, they will immediately begin rebuilding to the same purpose they had before.
So if you don’t want to have boots on the ground to ferret them out, you’d have to knock out the bulk of the civilian infrastructure and oil supply to create cuba-style conditions for internal takeover.
History tells me that it is much easier to put boots on the ground than it is to bring them home.
First term Trump clearly understood that.
We’ll see about second term Trump.
It’s going to take boots guarding heavy equipment to recover the enriched uranium.
Don’t do that and this war will have been a total waste.
So CNN is “inside” now?
It isn’t too hard to bring them home in caskets.
I’m hearing all this boots on the ground Talk is fake news.
He can send all the boots he wants - as long as they don’t have American feet in them.
What a disgusting pimple comment.
President Trump is the best war-time president the United states has had since James Madison (war of 1812 and second Barbary coast war against the Islamic state of Algeria in 1815) or James K. Polk, in the Mexican-American war of 1846-48)
President Trump reminds me of President Theodore Roosevelt, but President Roosevelt did not preside over a war, except for the Moro Rebellion, which again was a conflict of America with Muslims 1901-1913. President Trump is exhibiting a show of American force, much like President Theodore Roosevelt did between 1907 and 1909.
The Iranians hand over the enriched Uranium and the bombing stops.
I’m not saying we should put troops in there, but if something needs to be done all this hand wringing about political support is troubling.
And what about the popular uprising phase? We’ve said we’re soupprting that and we’re attacking the forces that would suppress it.
It’s going to take boots guarding heavy equipment to recover the enriched uranium.
Don’t do that and this war will have been a total waste.
Much has been accomplished already. I agree taking the enriched uranium is an important goal.
“G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers notes that 58% of Americans think the U.S. military operation in Iran is a bad use of taxpayer dollars, while only 32% approve.”
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Morris is a Bluesky Liberal weenie propagandist. His polls should carry NO weight, and likely we can conclude the OPPOSITE of whatever he does.
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