Clinton: No U.S. combat troops to fight Islamic State

In her first television interview since the Paris attacks, Hillary Clinton spoke to “CBS This Morning” co-host Charlie Rose about her plans to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and controversies over her ties with Wall Street.

It is unclear whether the forces have already arrived in Syria.

Echoing a common warning from President George W. Bush regarding the Iraq War, McCain told CNN on Monday, “It’s this simple: We’re going to fight them there or we’re going to fight them here in Washington, D.C., or Phoenix, Ariz”.

“I agree with the president’s point that we’re not putting American combat troops back into Syria or Iraq”.

Clinton also emphasized the importance of getting over “the false choice between either going after Assad or going after ISIS”, by bringing in the Russians.

She noted ISIS’s claim of responsibility for downing a Russian passenger jet late last month.

Clinton reacted November 19 to U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy speech in which he detailed what he called an effective strategy for fighting ISIS, including using U.S. ground troops.

Wholesale defections, sparsely manned checkpoints and elite foreign fighters pressed into mundane duty indicate that the U.S.-led bombing campaign and advances by Kurdish forces are eroding the forces of the Islamic State, also known as ISIL, said Army Col. Steve Warren, the top spokesman for the counter-ISIL coalition in Baghdad.

“We need to join together right now before they get a stronghold and work to eliminate ISIS in Sirte”. “I want them at the table”, she added. An ambush on, say, a SEAL team in Ramadi could require the mobilization of ground assets to come to its aid. Hillary Clinton CBS News source Rose interjected & asked whether or not Clinton would nonetheless hold in that position under any circumstances.

It is tempting for the American people to regard the war against ISIS in similar terms to the long USA efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Graham stressed that “this is different than the last two wars”, since it would be “a large regional army with a small Western component”.