U.S. Increasing Military Forces In Jordan

[Purveyor]

Washington (CNN) -- Due to security concerns in Jordan, which borders the Syrian civil war, a combat-equipped detachment of about 700 U.S. troops will remain in the country following training exercises that ended this week, President Barack Obama told Congress on Friday.

In a letter to comply with the War Powers Act, Obama notified Congress that the detachment staying behind at the request of the Jordanian government included "Patriot missile systems, fighter aircraft, and related support, command, control and communications personnel and systems."

"The detachment will remain in Jordan, in full coordination with the government of Jordan, until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed," Obama's letter said.

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Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy also was continuing its longstanding deployment of three anti-ballistic missile ships is the eastern Mediterranean. The ships, with a total crew of about 1,000, carry Tomahawk cruise missiles to defend Israel from any attack by Iran.

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/politics/us-jordan-troops/index.html

Oh yeah...we got us a war a brewing. Y'all ready for this?

[Cleita]

1. I told people favorable to Romney not to vote for him because I told them

he was looking for a war in Iran or other places in the ME. So they actually did vote for Obama because they really didn't want new wars. Now what?

[MADem]

2. Not a war...If I had to guess, I'd say a NATO-Regionally-Agreed-Upon No-Fly Zone.

This has been brewing for awhile.

The key phrase in that piece is

...staying behind at the request of the Jordanian government...

When our Muslim Brethren, anti-military, pro-Islamic Egyptian leader, Morsi, starts calling for a no-fly zone, you know that they're sick of the shit Syria is stirring up; and they don't want Iran stuffing their nose in there, either.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/15/egypt-mohamed-morsi-cuts-ties-with-syria

Egyptian president cuts ties with Syria and calls for no-fly zone over country
Mohamed Morsi also urges Hezbollah to pull out and pledges to organise urgent summit of Arab and Islamist states

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Who said, "What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."?

I guess getting involved in another civil war is not dumb or stupid....just like it wasn't in Vietnam and Afghanistan.