IT TAKES A LEADER TO LEAD AND MAKE THE DIFFICULT DECISION THAT BENEFITS NATIONAL SECURITY AND NOT SOME LAME DECISION BASED ON AGENDA AND AN UPCOMING ELECTION–ADVISOR PROPOSES MILITARY TROOPS TO TAKE ON ISIL NOT SOME PIN PRICK ATTACKS WHILST A GENOCIDE TAKES PLACE OF NON MUSLIMS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA–THE DEMOCRATS AND POTUS BHO RUNS AWAY FROM CONFRONTATION AS ALWAYS

[Campaigns in Somalia and Yemen]  have dragged on for years and involve far smaller and less-well-financed adversaries than the Islamic State. Although Obama promised a “steady, relentless effort” in a nationally televised address Wednesday night, he also said that “it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL,” using a common acronym for the Islamic State.

Such a mission was not the U.S. military’s preferred option. Responding to a White House request for options to confront the Islamic State, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, said that his best military advice was to send a modest contingent of American troops, principally Special Operations forces, to advise and assist Iraqi army units in fighting the militants, according to two U.S. military officials. The recommendation, conveyed to the White House by Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was cast aside in favor of options that did not involve U.S. ground forces in a front-line role, a step adamantly opposed by the White House. Instead, Obama had decided to send an additional 475 U.S. troops to assist Iraqi and ethnic Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.

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