On the recordMay 20, 2015
ISIL would love nothing more than a large presence of United States forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria so that they could have a call to jihad.
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Martin Dempsey
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congress.govISIL would love nothing more than a large presence of United States forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria so that they could have a call to jihad.
Dempsey warns that U.S. forces on the ground could provoke ISIL.
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