Boots on the ground, although they still don’t want to call it that.
This is funnier when you realize ‘Direct Action’ is a word liberals apply to things like crying and screaming in Bank of America lobbies about evil banks.
Via NBC:
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin “direct action on the ground” against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to intensify pressure on the militants as progress against them remains elusive.
“We won’t hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL, or conducting such missions directly whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground,” Carter said in testimony before the Senate Armed Services committee, using an alternative name for the militant group.