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2015-01-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Scores of foreign fighters among Kobane dead

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Posted by Steve White 2015-01-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 "We don't get into body counts" . But every statement you make has a body count in it.

Posted by chris 2015-01-28 10:08|| 2015-01-28 10:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Kurds punching above their weight again. Why are our politicians so dense as to not realize who our best allies in that region are?

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-28 10:27|| 2015-01-28 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 The Kurds, at Kobane, when the ISIS fell.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-01-28 10:54|| 2015-01-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Imagine what they could doi if they actually had something more than small arms - like, say, artillery.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-28 12:22|| 2015-01-28 12:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Or drones that can shoot hellfires?

Posted by DarthVader 2015-01-28 13:41|| 2015-01-28 13:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Nah - no drones needed compared to artillery.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-28 14:31|| 2015-01-28 14:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Kurdish YPG and YPJ forces that defended Kobane are advancing across open country outside of Kobane to destroy ISIS in that region of Syria.

The good news is CENTCOM is going with them. Airstrikes in open areas where the YPG and YPJ are pushing ISIS back are on going.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-28 14:51|| 2015-01-28 14:51|| Front Page Top

#8 The US and some 60 coalition partners is engaged in the "first phase of a multi-year campaign

You know it took less than a year from Normandy to the Elbe. Of course, then there was 'will', 'focus' and little or no political interference in dealing with an even bigger and more dangerous enemy. Of course, we didn't a Teutophile in the White House.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-28 15:20|| 2015-01-28 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 They'll acquire all sorts of war materiel when they move deeper into ISIS territory -- though perhaps somewhat worse for wear -- assuming they don't consolidate current gains and become the anvil to the Iraqi government forces future hammer.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-28 15:28|| 2015-01-28 15:28|| Front Page Top

#10 swks: Bravo! Star Trek rules!

Posted by borgboy 2015-01-28 18:09|| 2015-01-28 18:09|| Front Page Top

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