Hillary Clinton’s “hawkish foreign policy” was questioned during NBC’s “Commander in Chief Forum” by a progressive female voter who served as an intelligence analyst specializing in counter-violence extremism.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton tried to clarify her position on deploying United States ground troops to fight Islamic State terrorists during a press conference on Thursday morning, but it remains unclear.
Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash announced that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is willing to deploy ground troops to Syria to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), as part of the U.S.-led coalition.
The latest CNN/ORC poll shows that just 16 percent of adults strongly support President Barack Obama’s plan to bring thousands of Syrian refugees into the United States, while 43 percent are strongly opposed.
Retired NBC anchor Tom Brokaw says, “It’s immoral for a democracy to send 1 percent of its population in a uniform into harm’s way over and over again.”
According to a report published in the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai, and related by the Jerusalem Post, Russian ground troops are already deployed in considerable force across Syria.
During his press conference in Turkey this Monday, President Obama suggested his critics talk tough on ISIS but don’t have any real suggestions to offer other than putting “large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground.”
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, while addressing the Reagan National Defense Forum, said the United States needs “much more than airstrikes” to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.
The White House officially “announced” on Friday that small teams of U.S. special forces would be deployed in Syria, totaling up to 50 commandos on the ground.
The latest CNN/ORC International poll on the war against ISIS paints a glum portrait of a disillusioned public with no confidence in President Obama’s leadership and no sense that any progress is being made against the terror state.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jack Reed (D-RI), the ranking-member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Thursday that the use of “ground forces” is required to resolve the Syrian conflict.
