US Would Deploy Ground Forces Only If ISIS Obtains Nuclear Weapons, Obama Said
(Newswire.net — November 18, 2014) – Brisbane, Australia – At
recent G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, US President Barack Obama
said in a press conference that he would deploy ground troops in Syria
to fight ISIS only if they obtain a nuclear weapon.
“If we discovered that [Islamic State] had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon, and we had to run an operation to get it out of their hands, then, yes, I would order it,” Obama told reporters.
Even though jihadists gain control of large areas of Syria and Iraq, Mr. Obama said would not send a large fighting force to combat on the ground. He says he is so far satisfied with US-led airstrikes against Islamic State.
President Obama, however, authorized the deployment of 1,500 troops to Iraq earlier this month, but they are not in combat area and are there just to advise Iraqi forces and maintain American military presence in the country, according to official explanations.
Last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top position in the US military, said in testimony on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon is “certainly considering” whether to install US military advisers within Iraqi combat units fighting Islamic State, RT reported.
Dempsey said that Islam State extremists are seeking ways to destabilize any Syria-Iran-Iraq alliance so he advice sending US ground forces to Syria and Iraq.
Obama said he expects Dempsey to offer “honest military advice,” pointing that it is Dempsey’s job “to think about various contingencies.”
“There are always circumstances in which the United States might need to deploy US ground troops,” Obama said.
Jeremy Salt, professor of Middle Eastern history and politics, told RT he believes that IS militants intention is to lure US to deploy ground forces.
“If we look at the fundamental treaties that seem to be guiding their actions, called the ‘Management of Savagery,’ we can see that the game plan is actually to draw the US into the Middle East because the understanding is that the US is exhausted and doesn’t want any more wars in the Middle East, and therefore it would be a soft target,” professor Salt says.
As an example of the doctrine, Salt reminds that is what happened to the Soviet Union after it invaded Afghanistan. He believes that mass executions and beheadings are only designed as “a very big provocation.”
“Kill American citizens and then say ‘We don’t want you to come to Iraq and Syria’ – it doesn’t make any sense at all because if anything, it’s going to generate a greater American determination to do something,” Salt told RT.
“If we discovered that [Islamic State] had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon, and we had to run an operation to get it out of their hands, then, yes, I would order it,” Obama told reporters.
Even though jihadists gain control of large areas of Syria and Iraq, Mr. Obama said would not send a large fighting force to combat on the ground. He says he is so far satisfied with US-led airstrikes against Islamic State.
President Obama, however, authorized the deployment of 1,500 troops to Iraq earlier this month, but they are not in combat area and are there just to advise Iraqi forces and maintain American military presence in the country, according to official explanations.
Last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top position in the US military, said in testimony on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon is “certainly considering” whether to install US military advisers within Iraqi combat units fighting Islamic State, RT reported.
Dempsey said that Islam State extremists are seeking ways to destabilize any Syria-Iran-Iraq alliance so he advice sending US ground forces to Syria and Iraq.
Obama said he expects Dempsey to offer “honest military advice,” pointing that it is Dempsey’s job “to think about various contingencies.”
“There are always circumstances in which the United States might need to deploy US ground troops,” Obama said.
Jeremy Salt, professor of Middle Eastern history and politics, told RT he believes that IS militants intention is to lure US to deploy ground forces.
“If we look at the fundamental treaties that seem to be guiding their actions, called the ‘Management of Savagery,’ we can see that the game plan is actually to draw the US into the Middle East because the understanding is that the US is exhausted and doesn’t want any more wars in the Middle East, and therefore it would be a soft target,” professor Salt says.
As an example of the doctrine, Salt reminds that is what happened to the Soviet Union after it invaded Afghanistan. He believes that mass executions and beheadings are only designed as “a very big provocation.”
“Kill American citizens and then say ‘We don’t want you to come to Iraq and Syria’ – it doesn’t make any sense at all because if anything, it’s going to generate a greater American determination to do something,” Salt told RT.
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