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Clinton: More Air Strikes, More Special Operators To "Smash" ISIS

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BuzzFeed - Don Emmert / AFP / Getty Images Calling for a "second Sunni awakening," Hillary Clinton outlined her strategy to fight ISIS on Thursday in New York City: more air strikes, more intelligence assets, the immediate deployment of special operators, and additional operators to combat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Clinton described her approach as "in many ways, an intensification and acceleration" of President Obama's ISIS strategy following prepared remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. Though she said that we should be "honest" that "airstrikes will have to be combined with ground forces actually taking back more territory from ISIS," Clinton did not specify how many ground forces she would deploy to the region, and emphasized that action must be undertaken by a coalition. "Like President Obama, I do not believe that we should again have 100,000 American troops in combat in the Middle East," Clinton said. "That is just not the smart move to make here. If we have lea

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