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posted by on Saturday March 11 2017, @02:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-say-quagmire? dept.

Several hundred marines have deployed into Syria with artillery guns, as part of the ongoing preparation for the fight to push ISIL out of its self-declared headquarters of Raqqa, a Pentagon spokesman has confirmed.

The marines are pre-positioning howitzers to be ready to assist local Syrian forces, according to US officials.

The deployment is temporary. But it could be an indication that the White House is leaning towards giving the Pentagon greater flexibility to make routine combat decisions in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS).

[...] In addition, the US is preparing to send up to 1,000 troops to Kuwait to be ready to join the ISIL fight if they are needed, officials said. [...] The latest troop movements come on the heels of the recent temporary deployment of some dozens of army forces to the outskirts of Manbij, Syria, in what the Pentagon called a "reassure and deter" mission.

[...] Under the existing limits put in place by the Obama administration, the military can have up to 500 US forces in Syria, although temporary personnel do not count against the cap.

The special operations fighters are ostensibly there to train and assist the Syrian Democratic Forces, an umbrella group of Kurdish and Arab fighters that have proven to be a key ground asset in the US-led coalition's battle against ISIL.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/marines-syria-170309014847784.html


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  • (Score: 2, Troll) by NotSanguine on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:18PM (6 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Saturday March 11 2017, @06:18PM (#477811) Homepage Journal

    Trump's goal is to enrich himself and his cronies and indulge his insatiable need for self-aggrandizement.

    There. FTFY.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @07:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 11 2017, @07:34PM (#477837)

    This explains a lot.

    Assuming that you don't confuse l'Orange [nydailynews.com] with Le Grande Orange [wikipedia.org]

  • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday March 12 2017, @04:21PM (4 children)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Sunday March 12 2017, @04:21PM (#478085)

    Evidence would be great. I can give you evidence that Hillary already enriched herself by literally creating this crisis so that she could put its "inevitable" success on her resume in a bid for the White House.

    Do you ever wonder why ISIS doesn't attack Saudi Arabia? Do you ever wonder why Hillary gets so many millions of dollars from them?

    • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday March 12 2017, @06:48PM (3 children)

      Evidence would be great.

      https://www.google.com/search?q=donald+trump+stiffs+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=donald+trump+unpaid+bills&* [google.com]
      https://www.google.com/search?q=Donald+trump+egomaniac&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 [google.com]

      I'd just give specific links, but there are so many to choose from. There's a shocker. Not!

      I can give you evidence that Hillary already enriched herself by literally creating this crisis so that she could put its "inevitable" success on her resume in a bid for the White House.

      Please do. I could use a laugh.

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      No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
      • (Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Sunday March 12 2017, @08:35PM (2 children)

        by linkdude64 (5482) on Sunday March 12 2017, @08:35PM (#478197)

        You have literally provided zero evidence.

        https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23898 [wikileaks.org]
        See this entry:
        March 29 — HRC travels to London for a conference on Libya, where she is a driving force behind the creation of a Contact Group comprising 20-plus countries to coordinate efforts to protect civilians and plan for a post- Qadhafi Libya. She is instrumental in setting up a rotating chair system to ensure regional buy-in.

        https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/18328 [wikileaks.org]
        "[...]the costs to the United States will be limited. Victory may not come quickly or easily, but it will come. And the payoff will be substantial. Iran would be strategically isolated, unable to exert its influence in the Middle East. The resulting regime in Syria will see the United States as a friend, not an enemy. Washington[RE: The woman in charge] would gain substantial recognition as fighting for the people in the Arab world, not the corrupt regimes." Bold text is mine.

        http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/01/wikileaks-reveals-team-hillary-s-libya-spin-it-would-be-syria-without-clinton-s-war.html [thedailybeast.com]
        "In the lead-up to Hillary Clinton’s marathon testimony before Congress on Benghazi in October 2015, her presidential campaign prepared to make some eye-popping claims—including that Libya would have turned into Syria without U.S. intervention."

        Would you like me to continue?

        You provided a Google search, not a single conviction, foreclosure, or guilty sentence given to Donald Trump, and an ad hominem attack.
        I just provided you with the purest political evidence possible - straight from the horse's mouth - supporting my direct, specific claim.

        Please take a moment to be cognizant of the level of discourse and reason you are currently displaying. Let me guess - your next retort will include """""proof""""" from a glorified blog that Donald Trump has been (small text) accused of (BIG text) RAPING!!!! the US Economy.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @10:06PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 12 2017, @10:06PM (#478221)

          March 29 — HRC travels to London for a conference on Libya, where she is a driving force behind the creation of a Contact Group comprising 20-plus countries to coordinate efforts to protect civilians and plan for a post- Qadhafi Libya. She is instrumental in setting up a rotating chair system to ensure regional buy-in.

          Holy shit! The US secretary of state coordinated a plan with 20 other countries to prevent a government collapse from becoming a societal collapse.
          What a fucking bitch!
          Didn't she learn anything from Iraq? The right thing to do is gut the entire government and then let it become a free-for-all.

        • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday March 12 2017, @10:06PM

          Au contraire. It is you that have provided no evidence.

          You quote portions of emails that discuss *policy decisions* and then assert (without any evidence) that those policy decisions were specifically for Clinton's benefit. As to the quality and results of those decisions, that's a different discussion.

          I repeat. The only *factual* evidence you've provided is that certain policy decisions were made (those decisions are nothing new, nor are they particularly interesting) and assigned your own biases to the reasoning behind those decisions. Do you understand, or should I use smaller words?

          As for the google links I presented, they include many *documented* examples of Trump stiffing those to whom he owes money, countless examples of his outrageous lies and misrepresentations designed to stroke his own ego, and many examples of Trump making it quite clear that what's important to Donald Trump is three things:

          1. Donald Trump
          2. Donny Hairboy
          3. Cheeto Jesus

          Anything else (like the well being of the United States, it's people and the rest of the planet) comes in a distant fourth at best.

          Please take a moment to be cognizant of the difference between your biased interpretations of the facts and the facts themselves.

          Have a lovely day!

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          No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr