Representative rebukes Obama's plan

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/05/top-republican-urges-obama-to-reconsider-no-boots-on-ground-mantra-in-iraq/ The article, "Top Republican urges Obama to reconsider ‘no boots on the ground’ mantra in Iraq" speaks of a highly respected republican member of the House of Representatives urging the President to reconsider his strategy in Iraq. The decision that the U.S. government has made in response to the hostile takeover in Iraq by the terrorist group ISIS is to provide air support, but to not put soldiers on the ground in Iraq. Republican member of the house Mike Rogers says that we must not make this a mantra because it means that we are taking a defensive strategy and keeping our capabilities limited. He also said that we must put some Americans in harms way in order to take down the terrorist group. This way of thinking has already been challenged by the secretary of state John Kerry and is much more radical than most other republican colleagues of his. 

In my opinion, we need to open ourselves up to the idea that we may need to send in troops, but as of now it is much to early to talk of that. Right now we shouldn't keep saying that we will never send in any troops because that does not sound like a strong stand against the group. We should say that our plan is to do airstrikes now and then we will re evaluate as the situation changes. 

This could have an affect on the thoughts of some republican citizens because of they see this stance from a respected house member then they may agree that this is the right way to approach the situation. This also makes it sound like the whole government isn't behind this decision and i believe that we need to seem like we are all behind this kind of a decision for us to look like a strong front against the ISIS group.