Iran denies such ambitions; Israel is disinclined to wait and find out.Mr Obama hopes to buy time by dissuading Russia from delivering a missile-defence system that Iran has ordered and whose deployment could precipitate an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear sites.
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So far, the military appears to be resisting that — ordering the deployment chiefly of engineering, medical, and logistical units, and giving them instructions to avoid direct interaction with migrants.
President Obama agreed, ordering the deployment of 30,000 more troops, which will bring the total American force to 100,000.
But during a meeting with Texas Governor Rick Perry earlier this month, Obama said he was open to ordering the deployment as a temporary solution.
Obama has relied heavily on US airstrikes against IS targets in Syria and Iraq, and ordered the deployment of dozens of special operations troops to northern Syria to advise opposition forces.
Governor of Texas Rick Perry declared a state of disaster in 19 counties and ordered the deployment of Texas Military Forces personnel (including 80 citizen-soldiers of the Texas State Guard Medical Brigade) to the Rio Grande Valley.
He recently ordered the deployment of 21,000 troops to Afghanistan, over and above the 40,000 already there.
Acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco ordered the deployment Sunday, after the terrorist attacks last month and the beginning of the bombing in Afghanistan.
Air Force officials said they were also readying additional aircraft, including F-15's, F-16's and F-117's, but that by late today Mr. Rumsfeld had not ordered their deployment.
