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Republican Presidential Candidates Want Ground War Against ISIS

During their latest debate, the four remaining Republican presidential candidates revealed the one thing they all had in common..all four of them would put more boots on the ground to fight ISIS. During their 12th presidential debate on Thursday evening GOP candidates Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich each declared just how draconian they would be in dealing with ISIS in the Middle East Syria. The Republican contenders also scoffed at military efforts the Obama administration and vowed to send waves of US troops “to wipe ISIS out,” as Kasich put it. Think Progress reports: Perhaps the most shocking commitment came from Donald Trump who said he would do so, even if 20,000 or 30,000 troops were needed. “I would listen to the generals, but I’m hearing numbers of 20,000 to 30,000,” Trump said. “We don’t fight like we used to fight. We used to fight to win. Now we fight for no reason whatsoever. We don’t even know what we’re doing. So, the answer is we have to knock them out. We have to knock them out fast.” Many foreign policy experts have cautioned against the use of ground troops to fight ISIS, as it could exacerbate [...]