US President Barack Obama (AFP Photo/Peter Parks)
Srikandi - Presiden Amerika Syarikat Barack Obama tlh, buat kali pertama, menga-kui dia akan menggunakan tentera darat Amerika Syarikat ke Syria & Iraq utk memerangi Negara Islam - iaitu, jika kumpulan pelampau itu memperoleh sen-jata nuklear.
"Jika kami mendapati bahawa [Negara Islam] telah mendapat memiliki senjata nuklear, dan kami terpaksa menjalankan operasi untuk mendapatkan ianya keluar dari tangan mereka, maka, ya," kata Obama kepada pemberita pada sidang akhbar di Brisbane, Australia, pada Ahad. "Saya akan memesannya."
Sejak Operation Inherent Resolve - atau Amerika Syarikat ke serangan udara terhadap Negara Islam (juga dikenali sebagai ISIS atau Isil) - bermula pada bulan Ogos, Presiden Obama telah menegaskan bahawa beliau tidak akan menghantar angkatan pertempuran besar ke Syria & Iraq utk berhadapan rangkaian jihad, yang telah datang utk mengawal kawasan2 yg bersebelahan 2 negara2 Timur Tengah.
Walau bagaimanapun, Obama membenarkan penggunaan kira-kira 1,500 anggota tentera ‘1,500 troops’ ke Iraq awal bulan ini, 2 kali ganda kehadiran tentera Amerika di negara itu. Namun semua tentera dihantar ke rantau ini yang ada utk "menasihati" pasukan Iraq & tidak melibatkan diri dalam pertempuran, menurut penjelasan rasmi.
Pegawai Amerika Syarikat berkata tidak ada bukti yang mempunyai Negara Islam atau dengan mudah boleh mencapai senjata nuklear.
OBAMA: I Will Send US TROOPS fight ISIS
If they Get NUKES . . .
US President Barack Obama has, for the first time, admitted he would deploy US ground troops to Syria and Iraq to fight Islamic State - that is, if the extremist group obtained a nuclear weapon.
“If we discovered that [Islamic State] had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon, and we had to run an operation to get it out of their hands, then, yes,” Obama told reporters at a news conference in Brisbane, Australia, on Sunday. “I would order it."
Since Operation Inherent Resolve - or US-led airstrikes against Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) - began in August, President Obama has maintained that he would not send a large fighting force to Syria and Iraq to confront the jihadist network, which has come to control large areas of the two adjacent Middle Eastern nations.
However, Obama authorized the deployment of about 1,500 troops to Iraq earlier this month, doubling the American military presence in the country. Yet all soldiers sent to the region are there to “advise” Iraqi forces and not engage in combat, according to official explanations.
US officials said there is no evidence that Islamic State possesses or could easily attain a nuclear weapon.
Pengerusi Bersama Ketua, Jeneral Tentera Amerika Syarikat Martin Dempsey (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey (Reuters/Larry Downing)
Minggu lepas, Jeneral Martin Dempsey, Pengerusi Ketua Turus Bersama, kedudu-kan teratas dalam tentera Amerika Syarikat, berkata dalam keterangannya di Capitol Hill bahawa Pentagon adalah "pasti mengingati" sama ada utk memasang Amerika Syarikat penasihat tentera dalam unit tempur Iraq berjuang Islam Negeri.
Dempsey dan lain-lain pegawai tentera atas telah berkata ‘said’ mereka bersedia untuk mengesyorkan Amerika tentera daya darat untuk melawan Negara Islam, kumpulan dipupuk ‘fostered’ oleh Amerika Syarikat dan sekutunya di rantau ini yang mahu menggugat kestabilan mana-mana pakatan Syria-Iran-Iraq.
Di Australia, Obama berkata, beliau menjangka Dempsey untuk menawar-kan nasihat tentera jujur, walaupun orang-orang cadangan menyeberangi kebencian sepatutnya Obama untuk menghantar tentera Amerika Syarikat untuk memerangi bukan hanya memberi nasihat.
"Ya, ada hal keadaan di mana [Dempsey] boleh membayangkan bagi penghanta-ran tentera Amerika Syarikat. Itu benar di mana-mana, dengan cara itu, "kata Obama. "Itu kerja, adalah untuk berfikir tentang pelbagai perkara luar jangka. Dan, ya, selalu ada keadaan di mana Amerika Syarikat mungkin perlu menggunakan kuasa tentera darat Amerika Syarikat."
Last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top position in the US military, said in testimony on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon is “certainly considering” whether to install US military advisers within Iraqi combat units fighting Islamic State.
Dempsey and other top military officials have said they are willing to recommend American ground force troops to fight Islamic State, a group fostered by US and its allies in the region seeking to destabilize any Syria-Iran-Iraq alliance.
In Australia, Obama said he expects Dempsey to offer honest military advice, even if those suggestions cross Obama’s supposed aversion to sending US troops to fight rather than just advise.
“Yes, there are circumstances in which [Dempsey] could envision the deployment of US troops. That’s true everywhere, by the way,” Obama said. “That’s his job, is to think about various contingencies. And, yes, there are always circumstances in which the United States might need to deploy US ground troops.”
Reuters/Stringer
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