Washington Post lead story on Tuesday, Oct. 27, reports Pentagon proposals to “put U.S. troops closer to front lines” in Syria and Iraq

Early Tues. morning, PressTV asked Ray for preliminary reaction; he replied with 4 minutes of commentary over the phone:

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/28/435276/us-isis-takfiri-daesh-obama-syria-iraq

Later Tues. morning, the Senate hearing on the same issue prompted Ray to don his old President’s Daily Brief hat, impersonate today’s Russian intelligence analysts, and prepare a notional PDB item — for President Putin to appear the following morning:

Seeing Syrian Crisis Through Russian Eyes