United States senators call for 20000 troops in Syria and Iraq
Hillary Clinton on Monday told CBS News that she could not imagine any circumstance in which the US would deploy troops on the ground in the battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
After interviewing Clinton on a range of issues from climate change to terrorism, Rose recapped his conversation with fellow hosts Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.
“We don’t know yet how many Special Forces might be needed, how many trainer and surveillance and enablers might be needed”, Clinton said, referring to adding a small number of military advisers to ongoing missions in the region, “but in terms of thousands of combat troops like some on the Republican side are recommending, I think that should be a non-starter”.
“The thing that she kept emphasizing in every conversation – whether it was climate, or whether it was the Middle East, whether it was China – is leadership, leadership, leadership”. “We are not going to do that”, the 2016 Democratic frontrunner told Charlie Rose in an interview airing on his eponymous PBS show on and “CBS This Morning”.
Russian Federation is already working with the Assad regime in Syria against ISIS, but its air strikes have been targeting other rebel groups looking to top Damascus’s government, according to the U.S.
USA senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham called for 100,000 coalition troops to be placed in Syria, mostly from Sunni regional states but also including Americans, to fight the Islamic State (IS) group.
The expanded role of these special operations forces will include combat, Carter said. If anything, they’re expanding, and talking about transferring their flag to Sirte, Libya.
“I don’t think it’s the smartest way to go after ISIS”, Clinton said on Tuesday. Clinton, who for the most part has aligned her proposed presidential policies with Obama’s, seemingly agreed with the president’s assessment. The pair have quite a list of what constitutes recruitment tools for ISIS, including global warming, Gitmo, and acknowledging the threat they pose in light of the Metrojet and Paris attacks that killed more than 350 people between them.