US News and World Report quotes Rafik Hariri Center Resident Senior Fellow Frederic C. Hof on US special forces in Syria to fight against ISIS:
“Deploying a handful of U.S. special operations forces to Syria will not change this situation significantly, ” Fred Hof, Obama’s former envoy to Syria now with the Atlantic Council, said in a statement. “It is a Band-Aid of sorts, although a potentially useful one.”