Krauthammer: Obama Sending Special Forces to Syria So He ‘Won’t Be Humiliated’

‘—Not a way to win a war’

BAIER: "He’s upping the troops in Iraq now to 4,000, putting apache helicopters there foreclose air support trying to help the kurds and others in the fight against ISIS there." 
KRAUTHAMMER: "Let me just say, unfortunately, it’s not spaghetti against the wall. It’s soldiers into the teeth of an enemy that is fanatical and have 20,000 armed men against 300 Americans. Look, he is trying to do something. I think he doesn’t think Steve is right. He doesn’t want to lead off with Americans being helicoptered off roofs in a defeat, historic defeat like Vietnam. This will be enough to hold the field. There is a serious war in the north. There are kurds. And Christians. And local Sunnis who want to fight against ISIS but we’ve not shown the backing that they need. This is a holding operation so he won’t be humiliated. Not a way to win a war."

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