Obama: We won’t be dragged into another war

USA TODAY: …”As Commander-in-Chief, I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq,” [President Barack] Obama said during his weekly radio address.

The president said that “combat troops will not be returning to fight in Iraq, because there’s no American military solution to the larger crisis there.”

The radio address came two days after Obama authorized air strikes against the militant group known as ISIS that is threatening the city of Irbil, where U.S. personnel are assisting Iraqi security forces… (more)

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