Carter ready to help Iraqis in Ramadi
Stars & Stripes reports that Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that US forces in Iraq are “prepared to assist the Iraqi army with additional unique capabilities to help them finish the job” in Ramadi, where he claims that the Iraq Army has made gains against ISIS fighters in the city.
But the Obama administration’s approach is not enough, said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the committee’s chairman, who called for U.S. troops to be inserted into Iraqi units closer to the front lines to offer advise and call in airstrikes.
“What we do need in Iraq is several thousand additional U.S. troops to improve and accelerate the training of Iraqi forces, especially Sunni tribal fighters and embed to advise Iraqi units closer to the fight, call in airstrikes from forward positions, and conduct counter-terrorism operations,” McCain said, adding later “there are 20,000 to 30,000 of them. They are not giants.”
Defending the president’s approach, Carter said deploying a large U.S. force to drive the militants from Iraq and neighboring Syria would not ensure lasting stability in the region.
While I agree that we should not send thousands of US troops to Iraq to refight the war there, I also must express disappointment with the Obama Administration. Carter says that he intends to ask regional partners to do more in this fight. Why hasn’t that been done already? The Saudis and the Gulf States have done very little compared to the West in this war to save the region from an Islamic hegemony, the Caliphate that threatens the Kingdom. No one in the region, besides Jordan and Turkey, have taken on the refugee problem, the least they could do is provide some ground forces to send into the meat grinder. When Hussein was at the gates of their pleasant little kingdoms, they ponied up troops.
It looks to me like the Arabs and this president are hoping that the next president will be forced to have the US fight in Iraq all over again.
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Is it assistance, or will we be getting sent to go wipe their asses for them every time they run away?
So basically Senator McCain wants us to embed, train and fight with the bastards who were blowing us up for 8 years. I wonder if he would be saying the same thing if someone suggested we do that with the VC.
I do believe we should be doing that with the Pesh. To hell with Iraq. To hell with the Sunni and to hell with the Shia.
This is fucking horse-shit.
So now Carter wants to commit troops to Ramadi and help the Iraqis, just so they can abandon their weapons again like they did in Mosul once American troops leave?
^^^ THIS ^^^
This is the kind of sh!t that happens when someone decides giving his predecessor the finger is more important than US national security, ignores his advisers who “know the score”, and fails to negotiate appropriate agreements with foreign governments out of pique or to score “political points”.
Statesmen put the nation’s interests first. Community organizers, not so much.
PTP (President Total Pussy) couldn’t organize “his” way out of a wet paper bag.
Too bad that a bunch of personnel very familiar with the area circa ten years ago have either ETS’d or retired out. Good to see that the morons in DC never change.
“Politicians and diapers both need to be changed often, and for the same reason.” – Sam Clemens (Mark Twain)
Wait…….what? Last I heard from on high was that Ramadi wasn’t important.
“No one in the region, besides Jordan and Turkey, have taken on the refugee problem”.
That’s not true. Fully 1/4 of the population of Lebanon right now is Syrian refugees.
I have an idea…
Why don’t we package up all the libidiots that profess to care about the planet, refugees and hating everyone that doesn’t march to their stupid demands, send them over and have them lecture ISIS about climate change.
After all, they know moire about why this war is going on than any of us Veterans do and they have the cure wrapped up in their teensy weensy little minds.
We damn sure don’t need them over here.
While they are at it they can turn Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon and even Yemen into gun free zones.
They can go over there and enforce it lining everyone up and confiscating all the guns in the region !!!
That’ll fix ’em !!!
I don’t know if female infantrymen counts as a “unique capability.”