That's nice, I guess. A pity his "superior officer" won't be:
The military campaign against Islamic State (ISIS) militants could expand to include U.S. forces fighting alongside Iraqi troops, Army General Martin Dempsey says.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in testimony before Congress on Thursday, praised Iraqi forces for doing a better job, but said a mission to move into Islamic State forces-controlled Mosul, or to restore the Iraqi border with Syria, will be much tougher and more complex, according to Military Times.
In other words, it will require American ground forces.
"I'm not predicting at this point that I would recommend that those forces in Mosul and along the border would need to be accompanied by U.S. forces, but we're certainly considering it," Dempsey told the House Armed Services Committee.
In other words, they're not considering deploying U.S. ground troops, but they want to create the impression that they are. Either that, or they are considering it, but only as a hypothetical contingency in case Barack Obama is captured by aliens who transreverse his brain.
The United States has a force in Iraq now that serves as advisers and trainers, Dempsey said, and "any expansion of that, I think, would be equally modest."
And equally as purposefully ineffective.
"I just don't foresee a circumstance when it would be in our interest to take this fight on ourselves with a large military contingent," he said, Military Times reported.
Then what was the purpose of going before the House Armed Services Committee to tell them precisely the codswallop he laid on them two months ago? No wonder the HASC Members cleared out so quickly.
I don't call that a lack of congressional resolve to defeat ISIS; I call that an impatient disinclination to allow the Regime to waste any more of their precious time with such cynical distractions when they've got other pressing matters to attend to.
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