Come under attack by the russians. That is clear. Secretary carter absolutely true. But they have been placed in areas which for many reasons have not been subject to aerial attacks. Secretary carter they are fighting isil. The russians are not. Even though they said they were. But the go back. Let me go back. It has shifted to train individual units to the i sil fight to providing some training to the leader and then some support. This is another aspect of approach which i would like to clarify. Individualaders, but enablers pride people with Technical Skills that can go in to the deployed units and provide those skills. Is that still being done . Secretary carter that is so part of the approach. The big differences rather than trying to form brandnew units we are identifying units already fighting isil, providing them equipment and as you pointed out, after vetting their leadership, providing them with selected abilities that help enablementge our from the air. The program is able to
That goes overseas to bring their product back here, not trading with a country, im talking about our own people getting their jobs where they can, where its cheap and sends it back here and sells it for as much as they can get. Put a tax on those people and they would bring their jobs back here because it wouldnt be worth going over there to begin with. Lets take that idea. Congressman . I think we have to be careful about this, a lot of the companies in my state and district that have facilities overseas often put facilities in those countries to support that market. Just by the same token we have many foreign headquartered companies that have major presences in the United States. Theyre selling products here in the United States. Theres Foreign Investment in the United States employing a lot of americans and those americans and theyre servicing local markets. By the same token, ill use one company, air products and chemicals in my district, they build Industrial Gas plants and they
Maybe even as we speak u. S. Military pilots flying in the skies over syria engaged in military operations against isil targets and other extremist targets inside of syria. Those operations have been going on for more than a year now. The third thing i would point out is that there are there have been previous situations where the president has ordered u. S. Military personnel to conduct operations on the ground inside of syria in at least one case that was related to an effort to rescue american citizens who are being held hostage inside of syria. In another situation, a more recent situation, u. S. Operators carried out a mission against an isil leader and that mission resulted in taking that isil leader off the battlefield and collecting important, valuable intelligence about isil. Our approach to this all along has been to implement a strategy against isil that is focused on building the capacity of local forces to take the fight on the ground to isil in their own country. That is
Good morning. The Committee Meets today to receive testimony on u. S. Strategy in the middle east, and i want to thank our distinguished witnesses for appearing this morning and for their service to our nation. Before i proceed, id like to remind our witnesses this committees rules require written testimony be submitted 24 hours in advance of a hearing, and id like to try from now on for our witnesses to adhere to that. The tragic loss last week of Master Sergeant joshua walker, a veteran of 14 combat deployments reminds us of the high stakes of our mission in the middle east and how grateful we are to americans serving there. We need a strategy worthy of those who carry it out and, unfortunately, we dont have that. Whats worse it appears the administration has not even defined the problem correctly. A policy of isil first fails to understand that eye significant for all of the threat it poses is actually a symptom of another power thats now raging across the middle east. The epicenter
You can also let us know what you think on social media. Our twitter handle is cspanwj. We are on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Or, you can send us an email at journal cspan. Org. Now, white house spokesman josh earnest was at a News Conference on friday to explain the president s decision. Here is what he said. [video clip] our efforts have improve their performance on the battlefield. It has yielded progress. The president wants to identify that assistance that we are providing. One way to intensify that assistance is pair them up with experts, some of the smartest, bravest, most effective fighters in the United States military. That is exactly what were doing. I do expect that will improve their performance on the battlefield. They will not be in a combat mission. [indiscernible] they could find themselves in a combat situation. There is no denying the amount of risk they are taking on here. They will be equipped to defend themselves. Host we are talking about the u. S. s decisio