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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Mon Nov 23, 2015, 12:47 AM Nov 2015

US Special Forces To Arrive In Syria 'very Soon' As Assad Hails Russian Air Strikes

Dozens of US special operations troops will arrive in Syria “very soon” as promised by president Barack Obama’s administration, a senior official has said.

The troops will help organise local forces battling the self-proclaimed Islamic State in northern Syria, according to special envoy Brett McGurk.

“They will be going in very soon,” McGurk told CBS television’s Face the Nation.

His comments came as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad said his troops were advancing on “nearly every front” in the country’s four-year civil war thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September.

The embattled president also said he favoured new peace talks to be hosted in Moscow, but stressed that the Syrian conflict could not be resolved without “defeating terrorism”.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/us-special-forces-to-arrive-in-syria-very-soon-as-assad-hails-russian-air-strikes

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US Special Forces To Arrive In Syria 'very Soon' As Assad Hails Russian Air Strikes (Original Post) Purveyor Nov 2015 OP

US Special Forces are already in Syria mwrguy Nov 2015 #1

Exactly. They have been there all along. This is an escalation newthinking Nov 2015 #3

Oh for heaven's sake, let's all prop up Assad and get the fuck out of there. hedda_foil Nov 2015 #2

...^ that 840high Nov 2015 #4

mwrguy

(3,245 posts)

1. US Special Forces are already in Syria

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:06 AM

Nov 2015

newthinking

(3,982 posts)

3. Exactly. They have been there all along. This is an escalation

Reply to mwrguy (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:57 AM

Nov 2015

or a political response.

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)

2. Oh for heaven's sake, let's all prop up Assad and get the fuck out of there.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:31 AM

Nov 2015

Then everybody can blitz Isis together. I think it's pretty obvious that the Middle East can't hold together without strong men in the power positions. It's an artificial division of land into nations that never were before WWI. Democracy won't fix the power vacuum, nor will replacing effective, if brutal dictators with new ones. It's been 14 years of this and we just won't learn the facts on the ground.

840high

(17,196 posts)

4. ...^ that

Reply to hedda_foil (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 02:43 AM

Nov 2015

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