Captain Obvious speaks?
Back in September of 2014, I wrote the following:
And now, 15 months or so later, after ISIS has expanded by thousands of square miles, tens of thousands of fighters and hundreds of millions of our captured dollars with billions in our captured equipment, what does the Secretary of Defense say?
Back in September of 2014, I wrote the following:
Barry, we CANNOT WIN BY AIR ALONE.-----------------------------------------------------------------
Let me repeat that: we CANNOT WIN BY AIR ALONE.
We MUST put troops on the ground because YOU let ISIS get out of hand.
And now, 15 months or so later, after ISIS has expanded by thousands of square miles, tens of thousands of fighters and hundreds of millions of our captured dollars with billions in our captured equipment, what does the Secretary of Defense say?
DEFENSE
Ash Carter says boots on the ground needed to defeat ISIS
Defense Secretary Ash Carter watches during a change of command ceremony, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, at U.S. Southern Command in Miami. Ten prisoners from Yemen who were held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been released and sent to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman for resettlement, Carter said Thursday. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday that the U.S.-led coalition will put boots on the ground in its fight against Islamic State terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
“We’re looking for opportunities to do more and there will be boots on the ground and I want to be clear about that,” Carter told CNBC from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “But it’s a strategic question whether you are enabling local forces to take and hold rather than trying to substitute for them. That is a strategic intention that we have.”
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