Page 21 - Fire Fights News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Many will look and say you have broken your promise about boots on the ground. have you? >> well, keep in mind that we have run special ops already. and really this is just an extension of what we were continuing to do. we are not putting u.s. troops on the front lines fighting fire fights with isil. but i have been consistent throughout that we are not going to be fighting like we did in iraq with a battalions and occupations. that doesn't solve the problem. >> president obama on the special ops troops heading into syria. as the president said, we have been on the ground for quite some time a...

Director comey suggesting it's a result of ferguson, police officers are afraid of being photographed so that maybe this is chilling wind is affecting how they do police work but the president there notes again that it's anecdotal and there's a conversation out there about the possible effect. >> one of the largest struggles for the president, the decision to put boots on the ground in syria. how does he justify that as americans elected him to draw down. >> he was saying no boots on the ground in syria. last friday, the white house introduced the introduction of 50 special operations troops i...

Slipping into campaign mode and you would expect nothing less, i suppose. >> you did slip in an important question on syria. let's look at that. >> many will look at and say you've broken your promise about boots on the ground. have you? >> keep in mind that we have run special ops already, and really this is just an extension of what we were continuing to do. we are not putting u.s. troops on the front lines fighting fire fights with isil. but i've been consistent throughout, that we are not going to be fighting like we did in iraq, with battalions and occupations. that doesn't solve the prob...

Got violent crippminals out the, they need to be incapacitated, they need to be taken off the streets. nobody is more invested than i am in continuing the trend towards reduced crime. >> and for the first time, president obama spoke about his decision to put boots on the ground in syria. >> we haven't heard from you since last friday when the decision was announced to put a small number of u.s. special operations forces on the ground in northern syria. many will look and see you've broken your promise about boots on the ground. have you? >> keep in mind that we have run special ops already. an...

Ate with come under fire, you are under an obligation. i guarantee those men saw them come under fire and there was no way they were not going to come to their assistance, which tends to happen in a trained advise and assist role. if we say something is noncombat, you got to be careful with that, because if you're going to be in the assist role, you could be very close to these fire fights and have to make the same determination. >> those delta force operators made that determination. you said the word slippery slope, which is one that has been used in the past to describe what happened in vie...