We all still
remember that time when then-US President George Bush along with then-British
Prime Minister Tony Blair had both agreed to put boots on the ground in Iraq to
seize their atomic and chemical weapons and put a stop to the Taliban. Those
campaigns failed to produce any form of chemical weapons. Today, we might be
seeing the same thing, but according to the US, it is not the same.
Maybe we’re
missing something. According to the Obama Administration, the government could
only appoint combat personnel for 60 days in a foreign country if sending
troops without the approval of congress. Apparently, since June 16, 2014, the
US had been sending “military advisers” to Iraq to deal with the threat of
ISIS.
Now that the
extremist faction had grown from a “junior varsity” team to a major league,
Obama now re-classifies them to a higher threat level. He is set to justify to
the Americans why the ISIS becomes a threat, focusing on the idea that many
western fighters have joined the ranks of the extremists, and these have
possibly come from the US and the UK.
Meanwhile,
boots on the ground will never be considered, according to Obama. But you’ll
never know. Until those ‘military advisers’ see combat, US military personnel
can stay inside another country’s soil for as long as they want. Combat is only
when they engage hostilities personally. This is where you could clap your
hands for accomplishing something by bending the rules.
