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2015-07-26 Terror Networks

Kurds fight the ISIS group while being bombed by Turkey

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Posted by Fred 2015-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Effective Kurds have been beating ISIS pretty well. This is more evidence that the Turks have helped ISIS, at least clandestinely, in the style of the Pakistani ISI re: Taliban.

We need to treat the Turks as a hostiles - and back the Kurds fully in their liberation of a homeland carved out of Kurd majority areas in southeast Turkey.

But we will not.

Those airstraikes were seen all the way by US controllers, and Obama had them sit on their hands, and do nothing.

Eventually the Turks will pay for this in blood - there is always a reckoning for this kind of crap. Whats worse, is now the Kurds are seeing the US for what we are: feckless and weak, and unreliable as an ally.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-07-26 02:07|| 2015-07-26 02:07|| Front Page Top

#2 now the Kurds are seeing the US for what we are: feckless and weak, and unreliable as an ally.

Oh, I think they've grasped it in the aftermath of the first Gulf war, OldSpook.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-26 04:02|| 2015-07-26 04:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Even before that I'm afraid.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-07-26 06:11|| 2015-07-26 06:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, like 1975.

Posted by Pappy 2015-07-26 09:34|| 2015-07-26 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 The newer generation trusted us - we did do them right (under Bill Clinton, of all people) for a while, and they were the best to work with after 9/11. Then the rot set in on our side of the relationship - we suddenly became more sensitive to Iran and Turkey than the Kurds. Right about the time ValJar and JugEars showed up.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-07-26 14:28|| 2015-07-26 14:28|| Front Page Top

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