Does 'So he clearly found a way to project a bandwagon of strength without putting U.S. troops on the line.' stand independently of the premise 'He found a way to portray strength without putting troops in harms way.', neither following nor contradicting it?
So he clearly found a way to project a bandwagon of strength without putting U.S. troops on the line.###He found a way to portray strength without putting troops in harms way.