Originally posted at TomDispatch. On June 13th, Greg Jaffe and Missy Ryan of the Washington Post reported what should have been big news (though it was hardly noted). In recent White House “debates” over a disastrously deteriorating situation in Iraq, President Obama’s top military officials were dragging their feet on the question of what more the U.S. should do. No, they didn’t want to put American boots on the ground inside Iraqi army units as spotters for U.S. air power or bring in the Apache attack helicopters, which are “lethal in urban combat but vulnerable to enemy ground fire.” Clearly, they weren’t ready to swallow the idea of more U.S....
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