I worry that the full out war is going to happen in the ME :
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...-set-deploy-troops-syria-160205042542486.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/...-set-deploy-troops-syria-160205042542486.html
Saudi Arabia willing to send ground troops to Syria
After recent military gains by Assad forces, Gulf kingdom ready to put boots on the ground in Syria's escalating war.
Saudi Arabia is prepared to deploy ground troops to Syria to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) if US-led coalition leaders agree to the offer.
Saudi's air force has targeted ISIL with air strikes since the campaign began in Syria in September 2014, but the Gulf kingdom is now ready to provide ground forces to defeat the armed group, a military spokesman said on Thursday.
"Today, the Saudi kingdom announced its readiness to participate with ground troops with the US-led coalition against ISIL, because we now have the experience in Yemen," Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri told Al Jazeera.
"We know that air strikes cannot be enough and that a ground operation is needed. We need to combine both to achieve better results on the ground."
Asseri didn't elaborate on how many soldiers the kingdom could send.
The Saudi offer is expected to be discussed when the United States convenes a meeting of defence ministers from coalition countries fighting ISIL in Brussels next week.
Lawrence Korb, a former US assistant secretary of defence, said while Middle East countries have armed and supplied rebels during the five-year Syrian civil war, putting boots on the ground would mark a major shift.
He noted that it may also signal to Russia - whose air power has greatly aided President Bashar al-Assad's recent major military gains - a need to return to Geneva peace negotiations that were postponed this week.
"The fact that you will have Saudi troops on the ground fighting with the rebels against the government is a very significant escalation, and hopefully will get the Russians to these peace talks, rather than thinking they can create a mini-Alawite state in Syria," Korb told Al Jazeera.
Ashton Carter, the US defense secretary, welcomed the Saudi offer to participate in ground operations in Syria.
Carter said increased activity by other countries would make it easier for the United States to accelerate its fight against ISIL.
"That kind of news is very welcome," he told reporters on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia is deeply involved in neighbouring Yemen's civil war, where it is fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels both on the ground and from the air.
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries have long viewed Iran as a regional menace, and Riyadh and Tehran back opposite sides in the wars in Syria and Yemen.
You have no clue do yaz??Our current administration is as bad as Bush.
See if we let the people that actually have skin in the game handle their own problems, they do.
I'm sick of sending troops to the ME and I'm sick of the consistently shitty results we get.
The problem seems to be is they want to be the leader of the Sunni jihadists fighting everyone else in the war. Them entering the war is counterproductive unless we want to start bombing both sides of the civil war like Iraq again and become the great devil everyone unites around.
How'd Libya work out for you?You have no clue do yaz??
Who will Saudis fight for?
My money is to destabilize the government and empower terrorism.
Meanwhile we cheer them on...
Our current administration is as bad as Bush.
Who will Saudis fight for?
My money is to destabilize the government and empower terrorism.
Meanwhile we cheer them on...
Our current administration is as bad as Bush.
Considering that Saudi Arabia is essentially the worst country in the region, bankrolling both Al Qaeda and Daesh, it can't be for anything good.
I find it not that strange that all sh'ite leaders are under attack by western countries that see Saudi Arabia as an alley. Money and oil are great eye patches. Meanwhile the west is dragged into something that will turn into a global war if we stay naive. Someone asked me once if a world war would come. I said yes. And i hope it will be the last one before we make ourselfs extinct.
For the record, i do not uphold any religion.
Ummm, our leader, Obama, has now sided with the Shia (Iran) and moved away from the Saudi's.
Fern
Why worry? Let them fight it out.
And if we could just start to use solar and wind for energy over Oil.. we'd never ever need to go to the middle east, let alone send our men and women in uniform to that hell hole.
The Bush Admin is a bit a misnomer really, but regardless, is it your goal to show that thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars don't figure into your views on foreign policy?
It's like you're actually trying to make people not take you seriously. Why?
Considering that Saudi Arabia is essentially the worst country in the region, bankrolling both Al Qaeda and Daesh, it can't be for anything good.
Last January, President Vladimir Putin cautioned the West not to become involved in any possible future Russo-Turkish confrontation: NATO must defend its members against attack, but no one is attacking Turkey. NATO nations, including Germany, must not help Turkey defend its interests inside Syria. Putin warned: If challenged, Russia will defend its interests using all available means (see EDM, January 14).