by David Adesnik
Rubio Delivers Speech On Rebuilding American Defense
Yesterday, the president promised once again that he would not send American troops to fight in Iraq. To train. To equip. To advise. But not to fight.
Marco Rubio wants to know what happens if American training, equipment, and air strikes aren’t enough to destroy the Islamic State. According to Obama’s logic, that would be the point at which the United States simply gives up and accepts that the Islamic State is here stay.
Rubio Speaks
Yesterday, I heard Sen. Rubio deliver a speech on national security at the Willard Hotel, just a few blocks from the White House. The question of ground troops in Iraq came up during the Q&A that followed the speech. (At the moment, there’s no transcript or video of the Q&A, just my live tweetsand memory.)
I think Rubio is right about the short-sightedness of Obama’s ironclad pledge to keep American troops out of ground combat in Iraq or Syria. Hasn’t the president learned that events in the Middle East have a way of defying our expectations, especially the optimistic ones on which the White House has based its now-defunct strategy?
As Rubio noted, sending ground troops to fight in Iraq is not anyone’s preferred option.
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