Obama sends more US troops to Syria
The other day we talked about how the President was sending about 200 more US troops to Iraq. Today, Reuters reports that he announced today that he’s sending about 250 more troops to Syria;
The new deployment will increase U.S. forces in Syria to about 300. The decision, announced by Obama in Germany at the end of a six-day foreign tour, appears reflects growing confidence in the ability of U.S.-backed forces to claw back territory from the hardline Sunni Islamist group.
“Given the success, I’ve approved the deployment of up to 250 additional U.S. personnel in Syria, including special forces to keep up this momentum,” Obama said in a speech at a trade fair in the northern city of Hanover, the last stop on a trip that has taken him to Saudi Arabia and Britain.
“They’re not going to be leading the fight on the ground, but they will be essential in providing the training and assisting local forces as they continue to drive ISIL back,” he added.
Of course, these piecemeal deployments are the result of having no real strategy and because the brain trust – John Kerry, Joe Biden and Ash Carter – can’t convince the regional “allies” to commit to the war against ISIS, you know, even though the Arab states have the most to gain from an ISIS-free region.
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I’ve heard of mission creep, but this is ridiculous.
And with no mission plan, and hands-tied-behind-the-back ROEs, it’s a clusterf$$k.
Does anybody think this group will get combat pay?
They are sending Engineers also sounds like they are looking at building up or fixing the shit the Iraqis fucked up when we left.
It becomes more and more disturbing to watch this idiocy and be unable to do anything about it.
The definition of insanity is doing the same failed thing over and over ,expecting a successful results.
Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria
These idiots in DC who are supposed to be looking out for the welfare of the nation want us to believe their smart and full of wisdom but yet their actions are that of the insane.
A big part of the problem also is NONE of these high government snowflakes have any skin in the game……let them send some of their precious offspring over their to fight and see how fast they quit getting involved in other countries problems that require military force.
Imagine the POTUS’s lil darlings or Chelsea Clinton in a combat unit….LOL That ain’t going to happen
Agreed.
One of my huge pet peeves is how those self-professed Ivy League-indoctrinated political “elites” in DC repeatedly blithely refer to the troops that they send on deployment into combat zones as “boots on the ground”, as if those troops are inanimate pawns for them to naively play with in some kind of hideous global board game.
It never appears to fully register with the DC crowd that those “boots on the ground” are filled by someone’s father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, etc.
They also never seem to get it that those troops should only be sent into harm’s way when we as a nation have given them clear objectives and then back them up with an unwavering will and commitment to fully accomplish the mission and win, no matter what.
This is all going to get much worse before it starts to get any better.
But then again, what would I know about any of this anyway, since I never went to Harvard?
“…as if those troops are inanimate pawns for them to naively play with in some kind of hideous global board game.”
That is EXACTLY how politicians view the military. Never think otherwise. They’re nothing more than pieces on a chessboard.
Elo Bozo just wants to get as many troops out of the US as he can so his muslim devil worshippers can have a walk in the park here!
His departure from office is 7 years overdue. This is not “mission creep”, it is mission being dragged forward, while Obama clings to driving in slow reverse.
I’ve been re-reading John Ringo’s ‘The Last Centurion,’ and had a thought. The military upholds the Constitution, swearing to defend it against enemies both foreign and domestic. Yet, the military is very much hampered in that last part, particularly when the problem they could and even possibly SHOULD address is in the political sphere. In other words, they’re impotent in the the very area that is most critical. When the most insidious danger is inside the walls, because of their oath, they are powerless to address it. Rather unfortunate, given the current state of things.
Next March can’t come soon enough.
This is what happens when you have a guy making decisions based on how he perceives the world instead of how it actually is. Obama is a fuggin’ joke. (Yeah, I’m preaching to the choir…)
300 troops. They are not reporting support people, so I presume 3000 more civilians from the contract suppliers. triple the cost because of short notice.
We should take a note of French history; viva le Guillotine. Just a little “off the top” should straighten out our politics.
Yes they are reporting unkown number of support troops. I said they are sending engineers. My old unit is sending a small engineer detachment. The number of support is close 50-100.
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/war-on-is/2016/04/24/250-us-troops-deploying-syria-isis-fight-intensifies/83481188/
Support, as in logistics, resupply, maintainance, security, meals, ordnance, medical, mail, vector control, laundry, etc.
I do not trust anyone’s numbers anymore.
No when goes there numbers are just what they need. The ODA’s would hire some local for laundry and security would be some Infantry maybe or they would use the engineers that go with them for support. Medical they have their own medic in the 18 series vector control who needs that. SOF camps are not operated the same way as the big FOBs they are small fire basses. We do their Engineering support all over the world. They do not need all the big support shit
Just enough to hand the next POTUS a warm pile of runny shit.
And it doesn’t matter, he hates all the candidates.
It’s obvious, isn’t it?
This is bodaprez’s way of spitting in the face of whoever succeeds him. He is washing his hands of the whole thing by ‘doing something’ and leaving the blame for the mess to whoever follows him. If that silly bitch in a pantsuit actually had any brains, she’d know what it means to be set up, but she’s so power-hungry awash in greed that she’s blind to it, as is her opponent – and I don’t mean the Bernout.
Geezo Pete, with this mess getting nastier and nastier on all sides, you couldn’t pay me enough to take that job. Not unless somehow, it turns into a real confounded shooting war before June. And I do not see that happening.
Can we blame Bush still after 2016?
Sure, why not? Who else is available?
He’ll probably be blamed for it for eternity.
It’s really annoying how politicians such as our POTUS (and many others, now and in the past) try to make it appear as though they have “an affinity for special operators” like it’s some unique characteristic of their Presidency. In reality, it’s a weak, thinly veiled attempt to look like a tough guy while politicizing the hell out of a conflict to keep up appearances when everybody knows better. Let’s not forget how many thousands are deployed for 89 days so as to not go above that TAD/TDY requirement! lol
So how many Americans in uniform are there in Iraq now? Any guesses how many will be in place by the end of the year?
How many ‘advisors’ have been sent to the Middle East, starting last year? Average that out and it’s much worse than anything that happened with Vietnam.