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Home Front: Politix
House Speaker Ryan doesn't rule out troops in Syria to fight Islamic State
2017-02-06
[reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
Tribune] House Speaker Paul Ryan
...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies...
suggested in an interview broadcast Sunday that he would support using U.S. ground troops in Syria if it were part of a comprehensive plan to defeat the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
that's due from the Pentagon later this month.

"It's in our vital national security interest. We must destroy ISIS in Syria," Ryan said on NBC News' "Meet the Press," using an acronym for the jihadist group.

The Wisconsin Republican was asked whether he'd be "reluctantly comfortable" sending U.S. soldiers into the conflict, which the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
estimates has cost the lives of 400,000 Syrians. "I've spent a lot of time on this issue," Ryan said. "We cannot afford to allow ISIS to continue to enjoy safe havens to recruit."
Posted by:Fred

#2  Just ease regulation on fracking, and forget ME exists.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-02-06 11:48  

#1  Choices seem to be to ally with Russia to re-establish Pencil-neck's regime, or to continue to ally with whoever says they're fighting against ISIS other than Pencil-neck and end up in a war against Russia. Or just send in enough ammo to everyone to keep everybody occupied, and have some popcorn.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-02-06 10:04  

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