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Kerry: Some Nations Offer Ground Troops in Fight Against IS
 [VOA News] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said he was "extremely encouraged" by pledges of military assistance against Islamic State Death Eaters by countries inside and outside the Middle East and that some nations had offered ground troops. Kerry has been touring the Middle East to try to secure backing for U.S. efforts to build a coalition to fight the Islamic State Death Eaters who have grabbed territory in Syria and Iraq. "We have countries in this region, countries outside of this region, in addition to the United States, all of whom are prepared to engage in military assistance, in actual strikes if that is what it requires. And we also have a growing number of people who are prepared to do all the other things," Kerry said in remarks aired on Sunday on the CBS program Face the Nation. On the CNN program State of the Union, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough was asked if this coalition would need ground troops beyond opposition forces in Syria and Kurdish and government forces in Iraq. "Ultimately, to destroy ISIL, we do need to have a force, an anvil against which they will be pushed - ideally Sunni forces," he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. Posted by: Fred 2014-09-15 |
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