Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said he will send additional U.S. ground troops to Iraq if needed to defeat the Islamic State.
“We’ll do what it takes to defeat [the Islamic State],” Carter said, in Kuwait Monday to meet with his top generals and diplomats in the Middle East to strategize on ways to defeat the extremist group.
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