Senior American military officials cautioned the White House against deepening US involvement in Iraq as President Barack Obama was weighing deploying more military personnel to halt ISIL advances, a report says. The cautious position was most evident in recent White House debates after the Iraqi city of Ramadi fell into the hands of the ISIL terrorists last month, The Washington Post reports. “After the past 12 years in the Middle East, there is a real focus by senior military leaders on understanding what the endgame is,” a military official told The Post on condition of anonymity, adding that US military leaders are...
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