Obama ‘Would Order’ US Troops Into Combat

President Obama has been unwavering and definitive in declaring he will not deploy U.S. ground troops into combat to fight ISIS militants. Period.

 

But for the first time since the start of then anti-ISIS offensive dubbed Operation Inherent Resolve, the president volunteered a scenario which he said would change his mind.

 

“If we discovered that [ISIS] had gotten possession of a nuclear weapon, and we had to run an operation to get it out of their hands, then, yes,” the president told reporters at a news conference in Brisbane, Australia, on Sunday. “I would order it.”

 

There is no indication that ISIS currently possesses or could easily obtain a nuclear weapon, officials say.

Read More: Obama ‘Would Order’ US Troops Into Combat If ISIS Got Nuclear Weapon – ABC News.