.MaddowBlog: Trump admin. is considering sending more US troops to the Middle East.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday night that the Trump administration is considering a plan to significantly expand “the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East,” including the deployment of “as many as 14,000 additional troops.” The pushback from Donald Trump and the Pentagon, however, was categorical: the reporting, they said, was “wrong.”
Ms. Blackburn then asked Mr. Rood whether additional forces were being considered, or whether the Pentagon might send fewer than 14,000. “Yes,” he responded. Of course, these possible deployments would follow the additional deployments from earlier this year. The Associated Press added in a report yesterday, “President Donald Trump has approved those increases, even though he also routinely insists that he is pulling U.S. troops out of the Middle East and withdrawing from what he calls ‘endless wars’ against extremists.”
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