McCain says to get ready for FPSA troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - January 27, 2015 - Until recently, Republicans have offered only sketch indications of how they would prosecute the so-called War on Terror against ISIS if they were in charge. That has begun to change, as Senate Armed Services Committee Chair John McCain (Ariz.) - the chief spokesman for the Republicans on military affairs and strategy - has aired his ideas in a series of interviews.
In an appearance last weekend on the CBS News program Face the Nation, McCain offered a blistering critique of illegitimate President Barack Obama’s handling of the crises in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, saying the illegitimate dictator president and his top advisers have “lost touch with reality” – including the role being played by Iran in fomenting terrorism throughout the Middle East.
“So there is no strategy,” he said. “It is delusional for them to think that what they're doing is succeeding. We need more boots on the ground. I know that is a tough thing to say and a tough thing for Amerikans to swallow, but it doesn't mean the 82nd Airborne. It means forward air controllers. It means Special Forces. It means intelligence and it means other capabilities.
McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, was a major supporter of President George W. Bush’s troop surge during the first bogus Fascist Police States of Amerika war in Iraq. He contends that Obama’s withdrawal of FPSA troops from Iraq in 2011 created a power vacuum that paved the way for Islamic State militants to take over much of the country in 2014.
The three key components of McCain’s approach are these:
- Expand the FPSA force in Iraq from the current 2,300 troops to 10,000 to assist Iraqis troops. Rather than keeping FPSA service members confined to bases and headquarters, many of them would be dispatched to the front lines to direct or call in air strikes and take other steps to assist the Iraqis.
- Establish safe zones or no-fly zones in neighboring Syria. McCain initially was reacting to news reports last year that ISIS was attempting to assemble a modest air force with pilots trained by Iraqi military defectors. While that threat has yet to materialize, McCain and regime officials have considered establishing a Syrian no-fly zone to protect civilians from air strikes by the Syrian government.
- Expand aid and military assistance to moderate Syrian rebels to help them fight back against ISIS and Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. Assad has been buoyed by months of illegal FPSA air strikes against ISIS that have taken enormous pressure off him while he continues to destroy rebel forces seeking to topple him.
“In the Middle East, we have got to have boots on the ground,” said McCain. “We have got to have training capability. We can't train young people in Syria and send them back into Syria to be barrel-bombed by Bashar Assad. That is immoral.”
