US President
Barack Obama (AFP Photo/Peter Parks)
MADAyuMadyan - Presiden Amerika Syarikat
Barack Obama telah, buat kali pertama, mengakui dia akan menggunakan tentera darat
Amerika Syarikat ke Syria & Iraq utk memerangi Negara Islam - iaitu, jika
kumpulan pelampau itu memperoleh senjata nuklear.
"Jika kami mendapati
bahawa [Negara Islam] telah mendapat memiliki senjata nuklear, dan kami
terpaksa menjalankan operasi untuk mendapatkan ianya keluar dari tangan mereka,
maka, ya," kata Obama kepada pemberita pada sidang akhbar di Brisbane,
Australia, pada Ahad. "Saya akan memesannya."
Sejak Operation
Inherent Resolve - atau Amerika Syarikat ke serangan udara terhadap
Negara Islam (juga dikenali sebagai ISIS atau Isil) - bermula pada bulan Ogos,
Presiden Obama telah menegaskan bahawa beliau tidak akan menghantar angkatan
pertempuran besar ke Syria & Iraq utk berhadapan rangkaian jihad, yang
telah datang utk mengawal kawasan2 yg bersebelahan 2 negara2
Timur Tengah.
Walau bagaimanapun, Obama
membenarkan penggunaan kira-kira 1,500 anggota tentera ‘1,500 troops’
ke Iraq awal bulan ini, 2 kali ganda kehadiran tentera Amerika di negara itu.
Namun semua tentera dihantar ke rantau ini yang ada utk
"menasihati" pasukan Iraq & tidak melibatkan diri dalam
pertempuran, menurut penjelasan rasmi.
Pegawai Amerika Syarikat berkata tidak ada bukti
yang mempunyai Negara Islam atau dengan mudah boleh mencapai senjata nuklear.
OBAMA:
I Will Send US TROOPS fight ISIS
If they Get NUKES . . .
US President Barack Obama has,
for the first time, admitted he would deploy US ground troops to Syria and Iraq
to fight Islamic State - that is, if the extremist group obtained a nuclear
weapon.
“If we discovered that [Islamic
State] had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon, and we had to run an
operation to get it out of their hands, then, yes,” Obama told reporters at a
news conference in Brisbane, Australia, on Sunday. “I would order it."
Since Operation
Inherent Resolve - or US-led airstrikes against Islamic State (also
known as ISIS or ISIL) - began in August, President Obama has maintained that
he would not send a large fighting force to Syria and Iraq to confront the
jihadist network, which has come to control large areas of the two adjacent
Middle Eastern nations.
However, Obama authorized the
deployment of about 1,500 troops to
Iraq earlier this month, doubling the American military presence in the
country. Yet all soldiers sent to the region are there to “advise” Iraqi forces
and not engage in combat, according to official explanations.
US officials said there is no evidence that
Islamic State possesses or could easily attain a nuclear weapon.
Pengerusi
Bersama Ketua, Jeneral Tentera Amerika Syarikat Martin Dempsey (Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs, U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey (Reuters/Larry Downing)
Minggu lepas, Jeneral Martin
Dempsey, Pengerusi Ketua Turus Bersama, kedudu-kan teratas dalam tentera Amerika
Syarikat, berkata dalam keterangannya di Capitol Hill bahawa Pentagon adalah
"pasti mengingati" sama ada utk memasang Amerika Syarikat penasihat
tentera dalam unit tempur Iraq berjuang Islam Negeri.
Dempsey dan lain-lain pegawai
tentera atas telah berkata ‘said’ mereka
bersedia untuk mengesyorkan Amerika tentera daya darat untuk melawan Negara
Islam, kumpulan dipupuk ‘fostered’ oleh Amerika
Syarikat dan sekutunya di rantau ini yang mahu menggugat kestabilan mana-mana
pakatan Syria-Iran-Iraq.
Di Australia, Obama berkata,
beliau menjangka Dempsey untuk menawar-kan nasihat tentera jujur, walaupun
orang-orang cadangan menyeberangi kebencian sepatutnya Obama untuk menghantar
tentera Amerika Syarikat untuk memerangi bukan hanya memberi nasihat.
"Ya, ada hal keadaan di
mana [Dempsey] boleh membayangkan bagi penghanta-ran tentera Amerika Syarikat.
Itu benar di mana-mana, dengan cara itu, "kata Obama. "Itu kerja,
adalah untuk berfikir tentang pelbagai perkara luar jangka. Dan, ya, selalu ada
keadaan di mana Amerika Syarikat mungkin perlu menggunakan kuasa tentera darat
Amerika Syarikat."
Last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top position in the US military,
said in testimony on Capitol Hill that the Pentagon is “certainly considering”
whether to install US military advisers within Iraqi combat units fighting
Islamic State.
Dempsey and other top military
officials have said they
are willing to recommend American ground force troops to fight Islamic State, a
group fostered by US
and its allies in the region seeking to destabilize any Syria-Iran-Iraq
alliance.
In Australia, Obama said he
expects Dempsey to offer honest military advice, even if those suggestions
cross Obama’s supposed aversion to sending US troops to fight rather than just
advise.
“Yes, there are circumstances
in which [Dempsey] could envision the deployment of US troops. That’s true
everywhere, by the way,” Obama said. “That’s his job, is to think about various
contingencies. And, yes, there are always circumstances in which the United
States might need to deploy US ground troops.”
Reuters/Stringer
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