Obama sends ground troops to Syria

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-deploy-special-operations-forces-syria-official-n454506

Man it sure does suck that the middle east literally has no troops of its own from the various countries that could act as ground troops.

Just sucks nobody in those countries volunteered to serve their country.

Those countries have plenty of TROOPS in them.

They are called Terrorists.

Having read the story: It's a very small contingent (50 or so) of special forces operatives sent in to work alongside groups there.

Just think of the pleasure that Obama will have in the last days of his administration when he recalls them, brings them home, and then FIRES them.

Ahh good times for Obama!

Originally posted by Surtur
Man it sure does suck that the middle east literally has no troops of its own from the various countries that could act as ground troops.

Just sucks nobody in those countries volunteered to serve their country.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Right now the Arab nations have their hands full with Yemen. Intervening in Syria would probably end up causing a war between Iran and the Gulf Arab states.

But doesn't the combined number of troops from the various countries number in at least the several millions range? Admittedly I heard that from Bill Maher so make of that what you will.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Right now the Arab nations have their hands full with Yemen. Intervening in Syria would probably end up causing a war between Iran and the Gulf Arab states.

...and that would be BAD because???

On the other hand if they are going to be bothering to actually send in ground troops then I say why don't they send enough troops to wipe ISIS off the map?

Obama is going to let His Russian Pal Pooty handle that mess....right after he squashes the Syrian Freedom/Rebel Fighters.

Originally posted by Surtur
But doesn't the combined number of troops from the various countries number in at least the several millions range? Admittedly I heard that from Bill Maher so make of that what you will.

The only two countries in the Middle East who could launch a full-scale ground intervention in Syria are Egypt and Turkey. But both of them are more distracted by internal problems right now, with Egypt fighting ISIS-alligned militants in the Sinai and Turkey quarreling with its Kurdish population and the PKK. Also, Egypt is basically on friendly terms with Al-Assad because they share a common distrust of Western meddling and Islamists and both want to keep their people oppressed.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/politics/donald-trump-syria-super-pacs/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Trump slams Obama

Weren't the Delta Force already in Syria?

That was Iraq.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/delta-force-commandos-kill-key-isis-leader-ground/story?id=31092834

Wait was the that one were the guy just died? I thought it was in Iraq, if not, my bad.

That may have been in Iraq, not sure.

I think they've had at least a couple operations in Syria though, including the one I posted.

Its so sad what has happened with Delta, they technically don't exist, now they are being called out in public.

Trump did not say whether he would deploy more troops to Syria as president, but simply said, "You either do it or you don't do it."

Typical Trump. Criticize without proposing a solution.

Was it pretty stupid for Obama to announce to the world that he is sending in SF to Syria?

Shouldn't he be doing something called "Covert Operations."