Despite General Dempsey's words, bar remains high for US combat troops in Iraq

By Nick O’malley
Updated September 17 2014 - 12:13pm, first published 12:06pm

In saying during a Senate hearing that he could imagine recommending that US troops engage in combat against Islamic State militants, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs did not so much reveal a difference between his view and the White House's, but his job and the president's.

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