Fifty years after then-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara swore that the US troops sent to Vietnam would have no combat role, President Obama announced he would double the number of US troops being sent back to Iraq. Over the weekend, the US president said he is “never gonna say never” to sending even more troops into Iraq, but still hung (tenuously) to his pledge that these troops would have no combat role.
RPI Director Daniel McAdams was on RT yesterday to discuss these latest developments in US military policy toward Iraq and Syria:
Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.
