U.S. Parses “Boots” and “Ground" in Syria

TAJI, IRAQ - APRIL 12: U.S. Army trainers watch as Iraqi Army recruits train at a military base on April 12, 2015 in Taji, Iraq. Members of the U.S. Army's 5-73 CAV, 3BCT, 82nd Airborne Division are teaching soldiers from the newly-formed 15th Division of the Iraqi Army, as the Iraqi government launches offensives to try to recover territory lost to ISIS last year. U.S. forces, currently operating in 5 large bases throught Iraq, are training thousands of Iraqi Army combat troops, trying to rebuild a force they had origninally trained before the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2010. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

As More American Boots Hit the Ground in Syria, U.S. Parses “Boots” and “Ground”

State Department tries to forget that Obama promised not to put American “boots on the ground” in Syria.