Obama Orders Boots on the Ground!

[Rob L 3,811]

It is funny , and maybe meant to conflate the issues but the second part of the post is:

Top military official opens door to ground troops in ISIS fight, despite Obama pledge

[Rob L 3,811]

Whadya mean "who else"? Where in that CNN do you see ANY mention of countries sending "boots on the ground"? None. Zero. Zip. Nada.

Some "coalition". Nice going, O'bama.

Where do you see a substantial commitment of ground troops against ISIS. Did you read the article?

"Of course, the enemy the president has boldly and unhesitatingly sent our troops to fight is the Ebola virus"

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It is funny , and maybe meant to conflate the issues but the second part of the post is:

Top military official opens door to ground troops in ISIS fight, despite Obama pledge

Of course it is meant to conflate the issue and it seems most everyone has hopped on the wagon.

[UncleBeer 244]

Where do you see a substantial commitment of ground troops against ISIS.

There are none. Thank you for making my point, (although you certainly took the long way 'round).

[JohnR! 5,495]

To be sure, fear sells...

Of course it is meant to conflate the issue and it seems most everyone has hopped on the wagon.

[Rob L 3,811]

There are none. Thank you for making my point, (although you certainly took the long way 'round).

Touche' your logic in impossible to argue against

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

There are none. Thank you for making my point, (although you certainly took the long way 'round).

You were making the point that the US is not sending any boots on the ground to combat ISIS either? It was sure easy to miss that point.

[JohnR! 5,495]

It is quite easy to miss that which is not there in the first place, is it not?

You were making the point that the US is not sending any boots on the ground to combat ISIS either? It was sure easy to miss that point.

[Rob L 3,811]

More like the coalition of the living dead... W's finest hour...

Hey Micronesia is small..but packs quite a punch!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It is quite easy to miss that which is not there in the first place, is it not?

That would explain it.

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

It's funny how a thread that is headlined "Obama orders boots on the ground" goes off on a tangent to talk about the campaign against ISIS. The boots on the ground and ISIS are two separate and totally unrelated issues. There's no ISIS where Obama ordered boots on the ground - with substantial bipartisan support from Congress, by the way. The boots that have been ordered on the ground are military engineers and medical personnel to help contain and combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Not everyone agrees with you that it's not about ISIS, and that the approximately 3,400 boots already on the ground are just "advisers"...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/politics/boots-on-the-ground-semantics/

[JohnR! 5,495]

The simplest of explanations are quite often the most accurate!

There is also a large amount of predictability involved...

That would explain it.

[Rob L 3,811]

Not everyone agrees with you that it's not about ISIS, and that the approximately 3,400 boots already on the ground are just "advisers"...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/politics/boots-on-the-ground-semantics/

I think we can agree..that Bill Kristol's article ( lending its title to this threads title) in the Weekly Standard is nice click bait..but refers to Ebola humanitarian aide.

I think we can also agree that we do not have 3,400 combat ready troops in Iraq today ( at least based on any source cited )

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Not everyone agrees with you that it's not about ISIS, and that the approximately 3,400 boots already on the ground are just "advisers"...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/politics/boots-on-the-ground-semantics/

And you're still mixing the two completely unrelated stories in the OP. The "boots on the ground" that are the basis for the title of this threat are military engineers and medical personnel that are to be deployed in West Africa to help contain and combat the Ebola outbreak. You might want to take a look at a world map. You will find that West Africa is not anywhere in the vicinity of Iraq. So these boots on the ground are, in fact, totally and 100% unrelated to anything regarding ISIS. The link you provided does not refute what I am and have been saying in this thread.

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

I think we can also agree that we do not have 3,400 combat ready troops in Iraq today ( at least based on any source cited )

No one has made that claim, now have they?