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Tue Oct 27, 2015, 05:51 PM Oct 2015

U.S. weighing 'direct action on the ground' in Iraq

By Tal Kopan, CNN
Updated 3:48 PM ET, Tue October 27, 2015

Washington (CNN)—The U.S. is considering increasing its attacks on ISIS through more ground action and airstrikes, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday.

Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. "won't hold back" from supporting partners carrying out such attacks or from "conducting such missions directly, whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground."

The White House, however, has yet to make a decision on the options for upping the campaign against ISIS, according to defense and administration sources. They said that further involvement on the ground was one of the possibilities being presented.

The ground option Carter mentioned to the committee was part of a three-prong effort -- which he dubbed the "three Rs" -- to adapt the U.S. policy on countering ISIS.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/politics/iraq-syria-mideast-hearing/

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U.S. weighing 'direct action on the ground' in Iraq (Original Post) rug Oct 2015 OP
They won't call it war but that's what it is. The word war doesn't even appear in the article think Oct 2015 #1
Neither does the word stupid. rug Oct 2015 #2
 

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1. They won't call it war but that's what it is. The word war doesn't even appear in the article
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:03 PM
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