HILARY LEILA KRIEGER
Jerusalem Post
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
The US does not want to see confrontation with Iran but
is still preparing its military for that possibility, America’s
top uniformed officer said Thursday.
“We’ve looked to do all we can to ensure
that conflict doesn’t break out there, while at the same time
preparing forces, as we do for many contingencies that we understand
might occur,” Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said during an appearance at the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy.
Mullen had been asked whether the US military was stretched too thin
to take further action in trouble spots beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.
“We’re very hard-pressed right now” because of the
two wars, he noted, but added that it is primarily ground troops that
have been deployed, and “the likelihood that our ground forces
would have to go somewhere in these kinds of numbers in some other part
of the world, or even in the same region, I think is pretty low.”
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