Cycle Of Endless War Continues: Ground Troops Being Sent To Fight ISIS

[GoLeft TV]

According to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, the United States has made the decision to send the 101st Airborne division to the Middle East to help in the ground fight against ISIS....

[EdwardBernays]

1. And yet

We're helping ISIS in Yemen.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. We've had US troops fighting ISIS since last year.

Dec. 2014 article:

ISIS Attacks American Base In Iraq In First Ever Clash With U.S. Troops

American troops in Iraq had their first actual battle with ISIS troops after the Islamist militants tried to overrun a base, an encounter that left the ISIS troops decimated and in retreat.

The attack took place near the Ein al-Asad base, which includes close to 100 U.S. military advisers. The U.S. troops, armed with “light and medium weapons,” and were able to inflict casualties against the ISIS fighters, forcing them to retreat, Shafaq News reported. The American troops were also aided by fighter jets, which directed air strikes against the ISIS troops that “silenced their heavy sources of fire.”

“US forces intervened because of ISIS started to come near the base, which they are stationed in so out of self-defense,” said Sheikh Mahmud Nimrawi, a prominent tribal leader.

The incident was the first time that American troops clashed with ISIS forces on the ground in Iraq. For several weeks, the United States has led a series of air strikes against ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria, ones aimed at crippling the militant group’s ability to move about the country and coordinate attacks.

http://www.inquisitr.com/1686751/isis-attacks-american-base-in-iraq-in-first-ever-clash-with-u-s-troops/#zjG4awDK2zdFHIoA.99

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Kurdish fighters say US special forces have been fighting Isis for months

The US military denies any special operations forces involvement in combat on 11 September or in three other other incidents listed by the peshmerga. Yet in interviews with the Guardian, a dozen Kurdish fighters and commanders said that US special forces troops have been participating in operations against Isis for months.

and they have video to show it.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/30/kurdish-fighters-us-special-forces-isis-combat

[markj757]

4. I couldn't disagree more....

I couldn't disagree more with that video. Just because we should not use military force lightly, or without an exit strategy, does not mean we should never use military force at all. I think the Prez has done all he could do without using military force on the ground, but to complete our mission to degrade and destroy ISIS as much as possible, in his opinion, troops on the ground will have to be used. I may disagree, because I'm not as informed on their mission parameters or mission objectives, but if there is any Prez, that I give credit for doing everything possible first before deploying ground forces, its our current Prez. And to suggest our Prez doesn't take into careful consideration, the ramification of sending in ground forces, both good and bad, is utter nonsense.

[newthinking]

5. If we were really after ISIS we would work with the Russians.

We *used* ISIS and allowed them to expand in order to accomplish other goals.

It hasn't been until Russia stepped in that we started to "get serious". We turned a blind eye to convoys of oil for over a year knowing full well that was one of the primary funding channels. Until Russia bombed them then we decided the "time was right" to do some of our own.

We complained about the Russians going after the trafficing near the Turkey border, until we realized that they were going to eventually seal off the border and stop all movement. Then we became interested in "the need to seal off the border".


Now we are worried about the growth of Al Nusra (Al-Qaida offshoot) yet we supported them in Syria via the "Free Syrian Army".