TYT: American Troops Headed For Syria

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News broke today that a small number of US Special Forces are already on their way to Syria to help against ISIS. Will they be fighting ISIS directly? Or just training locals? John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), Cara Santa Maria (Talk Nerdy), and Elliot Hill (The Lip TV), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"Barack Obama has ordered up to 50 special operations troops to Syria, US officials announced on Friday, in an apparent breach of a promise not to put US “boots on the ground” to fight Islamic State militants in the country...

But the White House insisted that its overall strategy to combat Isis remained the same and said the special forces troops would be helping coordinate local ground forces in the north of the country and other non-specified “coalition efforts” to counter Isis rather than engaging in major ground operations.

“The decision the president has made is to further intensify our support for our forces who have made progress against Isis,” the White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, said at a news conference.”*

Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/30/syria-us-deployment-troops-obama-special-operations

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1. We never learn.

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2. Some are not keeping up with the shift away from campaign promises of the ND-President Obama.

ND-New Democrat. They still think that Obama is a Progressive Democrat and are standing on Obama promise to stay out of war in the Middle East.

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3. Another 30 billion and no one asks for a nickel from the war profiteers.