Petraeus warns against sending ground troops to Syria

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Petraeus warns against sending ground troops to Syria

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/david-petraeus-syria-us-troops-216173#ixzz3sPtenHy2

By Nick Gass at Politico


"SNIP...........


The Sunni Arab areas that are in Iraq have no oil or natural gas production in them, so where would the revenue to sustain them come from as well? So the Sunnis, there is still a huge centrifugal force in Iraq, and it is the distribution of the oil revenues. It's something that also keeps Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdish regional government, tied to Baghdad as well. Syria, on the other hand, may be a Humpty Dumpty that can't be put back together again. And again, one doesn't know what the various outcomes could be," he told Charlie Rose on his PBS program.

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Earlier in the interview, Petraeus urged against keeping American boots on the ground as "not sustainable."

"I would not at this point," Petraeus said. "Again, you need to have a hold force that has legitimacy in the eyes of people that has to be Sunni Arab forces."



..............SNIP"

[Thinkingabout]

1. I wish he would have a heart to heart talk with Jeb. Jeb seems to think

Obama arranged for the troops to leave by a certain day when in fact W did not or could not arrange for immunity of the troops and Obama could not leave the troops in Iraq.

[applegrove]

2. Yes. It looks like increasingly people will be supporting Obama's policy on ISIS. Even though the

GOP is never allowed to say they agree, or they would have done the same. They did and would have.

[underpants]

3. His whole strategy was paying people not to attack

He is a joke