U.S. readying plan to send advisers to Iraqis fighting ISIS in Anbar (combat zone)

[morningfog]

Pentagon officials are readying a plan that would deploy U.S. military advisers to the volatile Iraqi province of Anbar to advise and assist Iraqi security forces in a region currently dominated by ISIS militants.

"To be clear, this is not a change in mission nor is it a combat role, as they will be operating in the same advisory role as the other locations," Col. Edward Thomas, spokesman for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN.

U.S. advisers currently operate in areas around Baghdad and Irbil in the north of the country. The new proposal would put U.S. troops in the middle of some of the most violent situations in Iraq.

Thomas said the plan is still "under development."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/31/us/us-iraq-anbar-advisers-plan/

[flamingdem]

1. I wonder if some of them

will speak Persian.

[enlightenment]

2. Or wear Green Berets. nt

[DreamGypsy]

3. Please be reassured, we seek no wider war...

...been there, done that.

Machine gun bullets became the bloody baptizers
And the falcon 'copters don't care if someone's the wiser
But the boy in the swamp didn't know he was killed by advisers
So please be reassured, we seek no wider war

And fires were spitting at forests in defoliation
While the people were pressed into camps not called concentration
And the greater the victory, the greater the shame of the nation
But please be reassured, we seek no wider war

While we were watching the prisoners were tested by torture
And vicious and violent gasses maintained the order
As the finest Washington minds found slogans for slaughter
But please be reassured, we seek no wider war

Then over the border came the Bay of Pigs planes of persuasion
All remaining honor went up in flames of invasion
But who'll tell the bodies of children it's not escalation?
But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.

We're teaching people freedom for which they are yearning
While were dragging them down to the path of never returning
But we'll condescend to talk while the cities are burning
But please be reassured, we seek no wider war.

And the evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders
But the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers
And a world of hunger in vengeance will always remember
So please be reassured, we seek no wider war,
We seek no wider war.