Pressed by co-host Charlie Rose on whether she would rule out sending USA troops, Clinton said, “At this point, I can not conceive of any circumstances where I would agree to do that”.
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As President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Francois Hollande in Paris to discuss global terrorism and climate change, a handful of USA senators are pushing their own plan to take the fight to ISIS.
Russian Federation and Iran have ramped up their military support for President Bashar al-Assad’s fight against rebels in Syria’s four-and-a-half year civil war, while the Paris attacks showed how Islamic State has extended its reach to Western cities. “[They’ve] warned that deploying ground troops risks backfiring by feeding ISIS’s apocalyptic narrative that it is defending Islam against an assault by the west and its authoritarian Arab allies”, explains the Guardian.
A USA defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it would be located in Iraq. “[Arab] countries for a long time have not seen what’s happening as a direct threat to them”, McCain told reporters. “I want them at the table”, she added.
During the CBS interview, Clinton also reiterated that she agreed with Obama “that we’re not putting American combat troops back into Syria or Iraq”.
Clinton’s position is similar to that of President Obama, who has sent U.S. Special Forces but is resistant to deploying combat troops.
Clinton argued that working with Russian Federation would provide a number of advantages, and said she believed Moscow could be kept informed of no-fly zones meant to protect groups battling ISIS on the ground. “The difference between 3,500 and 10,000 is meaningless politically inside the country (but) militarily significant”. “I think it gives ISIS a new recruitment tool if we get back into the fight”.
He also emphasized the importance of the global community stepping up to help out in the fight against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS and Daesh).
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Leading Iraqi politicians have repeatedly voiced opposition to a greater role for United States forces, which withdrew in 2011 after a almost nine-year war that left huge casualties.
