President Barack Obama meets with his national security advisers in the White House Situation Room on Saturday to discuss strategy in Syria. Chief of Staff Denis McDonough is fourth from right. Pete Souza/White House
Greg Jaffe, Washington Post: After vowing to end two wars, Obama may leave three behind
President Obama’s decision to expand the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Syria is a reflection of the conflicting pressures on a commander in chief who doubts that military force alone can end the conflicts in those countries, but who also feels compelled to act in the face of a humanitarian catastrophe and a growing threat to the United States.
The president on Friday said that he was sending about 50 Special Operations troops to northern Syria to work with Kurdish and Arab fighters battling the Islamic State. The deployment, though small, marks the first full-time deployment of U.S. forces to the dangerous and chaotic country.
The troops will be accompanied by more U.S. attack planes, based across the border in Turkey, and plans for more joint raids — led by Iraqi counterterrorism forces — to capture and kill Islamic State leaders.
WNU Editor: The U.S. is also involved in many other smaller conflicts .... from providing assistance in the war against Boko Haram, trying to stabilize places like Somalia, and to waging a war against all terror groups and their affiliates worldwide.
3 comments:
"trying to stabilize places like Somalia, and to waging a war against all terror groups and their affiliates worldwide."
Really?!? Really is that true?
I know it is.
But you would not know it from 14 years of press coverage. Most of I was demonizing Bush. While Iraq and Afghanistan were bigger efforts, good coverage would have regularly given coverage of all theatres of war.
Instead the Phillipines, the Horn of Africa and other places drop off the radar screen for months or years at a time.
With the internet unlike paper the big news organizations have no excuse.
Obama's the man. He can show a profit. He inherited 2 wars and is leaving 3 behind. 50% increase. He da MAN!
During the Cuban crisis Canada's participation caused Bobby Kennedy to remark, "Canada provides all manner of just short of actual help."
It seems that in these many wars the US provides all sorts of aid just short of actual help.
Could it be that they really don't want the various issues to be resolved so they give only enough aid to keep it going?
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