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Aug 15, 2014 Fox News
News from Northern Iraq today the 90 Yazidis were massacred today. Men were slaughtered and women were made slaves This just a day after President Obama claimed the mission was ended and was successful. Really, "Mission Accomplished" well Obama lied and people died. This is very sad. These people did nothing to ISIS. Just tragic. This is very sad. These people did nothing to ISIS. Just tragic.
ISIS massacres 90 Yazidis in northern Iraq town, say Iraqi officials | Fox News
And the US is providing arms to the Kurds that have the BKK (a recognised terror group) fighting along side of them, see any problems with that? Here we go again.
And the US is providing arms to the Kurds that have the BKK (a recognised terror group) fighting along side of them, see any problems with that? Here we go again.
When has Peshmerga fought alongside the PKK?
Heya Monte. :2wave: Well the Kurds say they need heavier arms to counter the Terrorists that are a threat to all around them. You don't have any trouble with the French saying they will arm them immediately now, do ya?
Howdy MMC, I don't know about that. But the PKK is in Erbil fighting IS.
They were first spotted in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Erbil on August 8, just as US President Barack Obama announced he had authorised airstrikes in northern Iraq against ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria) targets.
In their distinctive khaki-grey uniforms, their ranks including battle-hardened female fighters – a rarity in most parts of the Middle East – they took up positions in and around Erbil, including the Sami Abdulrahman Park, a sprawling green expanse in the heart of the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
As the ISIS onslaught inched dangerously close to Erbil, the fighters from the PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) -- a Marxist group that waged a 30-year armed struggle against the Turkish state -- had arrived to help their Iraqi brethren in their fight against the Islamist terrorists.
Middle East - Strange bedfellows: terror groups, Kurdish factions unite against ISIS - France 24
Well that's good....as it should be hunting season on ISIL. By everyone.....even the Russians should be getting in some target practice.
Thanks for the link.
In any case, the violent phase of the PKK conflict has ended, so it's unlikely that this will cause regional instability. Allowing the PKK to indirectly pick up weapons and fight alongside Peshmerga is preferable to allowing ISIS to run rampant.
The whole reason IS is the problem that they are now, is that they were strengthened in part by arms being sent into Syria by the US. So lets just further the problem along.
Thanks for the link.
In any case, the violent phase of the PKK conflict has ended, so it's unlikely that this will cause regional instability. Allowing the PKK to indirectly pick up weapons and fight alongside Peshmerga is preferable to allowing ISIS to run rampant.
All the more reason to take these guys out.....they have taken 3 Iraqi military bases and one of Assad's. They have the best tech to fight with.....US and Russian.
Past mistakes.....isn't solving any immediate problem with them anyways.
I hear ya man, but I'm fed up with making mistake after mistake with partisan support that comes back to bite us in the ass over and over and over. We need to get our incompetent asses OUT of the ME.
Look it has nothing to due with Partisan support.....both parties foreign policy people got it wrong in dealing with those in the ME. Yet the bottomline is....if the US had done absolutely nothing. The death toll and all the problems you see there. Would be 10 times greater. As well as ten times harder to control.
Which say nothing when looking at our own interests by themselves.
Look at the partisans on the left that covered for Benghazi, which bit us in the ass while covertly running arms from that annex to Turkey, who was tasked with vetting the syrian rebels, but arms fell into the wrong hands and now IS is spreading all over, just as China and Russia warned it would. Incompetence!
That's an Iraqi problem. Wee shouldn't be involved
In that region, we just need to stay out. Once their culture matures and there isn't a constant state of violence, we can reconsider because at that point there is a chance of lasting good.We shouldn't intervene in cases of genocide?
We shouldn't intervene in cases of genocide?
Yeah, while Russia and Chinas Weapons kept spreading elsewhere.....while Iran and Qatar kept funding Terrorists. Whats forgotten.....is we don't control what they do nor think up to create any other intentional difficulties for us. Nor are we responsible for the actions and intent of others.
We shouldn't intervene in cases of genocide?
In that region, we just need to stay out. Once their culture matures and there isn't a constant state of violence, we can reconsider because at that point there is a chance of lasting good.
Until then, we need to give up on helping them
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