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CHICAGO - There will be no American boots on the ground fighting the Islamic state as long as Barack Obama is president, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin said Sunday.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said late last week that he stood by comments made earlier before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he would recommend U.S. ground troops take on the Islamic State if he felt it was necessary.
Asked if U.S. ground troops could find their way fighting the Islamic State, Rick Pearson writes in the Chicago Tribune Sunday afternoon that Durbin said, “I don’t believe we will. We certainly won’t under this president.”
