Replies to post #228319 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Dale C]

That's good to hear and it's the only way they will have an end to those extremist's. Depending on foreigners to do the dirty work has to be embarrassing as a nation and as a people. They may be more effective, they're mot bound by rules of engagement.

[PegnVA]

"NO American soldiers fighting in Iraq today" - Maybe not "today", but I agree with today's NYT editorial, it's only a matter of time.

I spent today in Wash D.C. with one of my sons - AMTRAK gives passengers in their Business Car a copy of the NY TIMES...this from today's NYT Editorial...
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE BEGINS
A week ago, President Obama stood before the American people and promised that the expanding fight against the Islamic State - a vicious Sunni militant group known as ISIS or ISIL, that is terrorizing parts of Iraq and Syria - would not mean a commitment of American ground troops. "As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission," he said.
On Tuesday, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had a very different message when he testified before the Senate Armed Services. "If we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I'll recommend that to the president", he said, citing a potential attempt to retake the strategic important Iraqi city of Mosul as an example.
There is no way to read this other than a reversal from the firm commitment Mr. Obama made not to immerse the country in another endless ground war in the Middle East.