On Monday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said: “I can say definitively that the president has ruled out sending American boots on the ground to be engaged in a combat role in Iraq and in Syria.” was echoing the president’s pledge in his address last Wednesday that the expanding campaign “will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.” asked Tuesday about Dempsey’s latest comments, stressed that the Joint Chiefs chairman was referring to a “hypothetical scenario.” Bu