[IsraelNationalNews] There is a need for a monument (in addition to a state) for the Kurds. We need to name them on the streets, our poets (nowadays there are very few) have to pen verses in their honor and our politicians must visit them by offering them solidarity and contracts. The Kurds (with the help of the US) have just liberated Raqqa, the city where ISIS was hanging and crucifying and stoning and planning massacres of Europeans.
The Kurds opened their cities (like Erbil) to Christians displaced by Islamic fundamentalists. Only among the Kurds do you find Western volunteers who have gone to fight, not for the Caliph, but against him. The only place in the Middle East where today, apart from Israel, a Jew can show a kippah without being attacked is Kurdistan.
Nine months after Trump promised to defeat ISIS "quickly and effectively," the US armed forces and their Kurdish allies took Raqqa, which until Tuesday was the capital of the the Caliphate. After scornfully minimizing ISIS as a "JV team", Barack Obama realized his egregious misnomer, but then said that "it will take time" and "it is a long-term and complex challenge."
Joshua Keating, writing for the left-wing newspaper Slate, noted that Trump had instructed the Pentagon to loosen the rules for air strikes to the minimum required by international law by eliminating the White House surveillance procedures to protect civilians and ordering the CIA to resume targeted killing (America has just bombed in Yemen for the first time). Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a well-known Trump critic, praised this "dramatic change" over Obama's politician's management. The result is quite obvious.
In July, ISIS was expelled from Mosul and this week Raqqa was freed. Trump did in nine months what Obama did not accomplish in three years.
And Europe, the famous multilateral Europe? Angela Merkel sealed the pact with Erdogan's Turks, those who are bombing the Kurds, and Macron's France tightened the ranks around the covenant with Iran, the force that pushed the Kurds out of Kirkuk. Europe is still held prisoner by the syndrome of Munich.
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The way you have treated the Kurds after all of this I shall always remember... Forever.
Time and Heaven will un-ravel you all for this.
I never forget so warn your kids. It's going to be a rocky ride until you all find the Rock.
#3
What the Middle East needs for real peace, a two part plan:
1. Move every last mother-loving Palestinian to Kurdistan.
2. Move every Kurd to the East bank and Gaza strip (and Golan Heights perhaps).
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Sorry, RJ. But that's ours. Together with Judea & Samaria, and Transjordan, and anything else we might snap. Still, leaves plenty of space for Kurds - in their own places.
[NRA Shooting Illustrated] In 1983, an article written by a Salt Lake City police officer named Dennis Tueller was published in a law enforcement journal. The article was titled "How Close is too Close?" It dealt with the premise of a man armed with a holstered handgun defending against a man armed with a striking or stabbing instrument. Through experimentation, Tueller developed what became known as the "21-Foot Rule," which concluded if a bad guy armed with a knife or a club was within 21 feet of you, the reasonable conclusion would be you were within his danger zone. In other words, the bad guy could cover 21 feet in about 1.5 seconds‐before you could draw your handgun and neutralize the threat.
Two important things occurred as a result of Tueller’s observation and the resulting article. As trainers became aware of Tueller’s postulate, various drills appeared that were designed to replicate this 7-yard assault. The cumulative result of trainers and students practicing these drills, talking about them and writing about them was a tactical axiom: If an armed individual was within 21 feet of you, you would be justified in shooting to defend yourself.
According to Dave Starin, retired SWAT officer and former director of training at Gunsite Academy, "It changed many agencies use-of-force policies and training programs and has also been used for decades in use-of-force reviews and court cases."
[TheConversation] One year ago, the American warship USS Mason defended itself from attacking cruise missiles while patrolling the Red Sea. It was a minor affair with few shots fired and no one hurt. But it was noteworthy for its global security implications.
On Oct. 9, 2016, Mason’s radar detected two anti-ship cruise missiles launching 48 kilometres away from rebel-held areas of Yemen. They flew low over the water at about 1,100 kilometres an hour, and would reach the ship in just over two minutes.
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Call me crazy, but is it okay to ask if the Aegis, or some other system, can calc the launching point?
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So they fired 3 interceptors for zero hits. One missile crashed on its own and the other MAY have been winged. I guess nobody noticed that in the article.
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HA9366, without visual confirmation there is no direct evidence of missile kills. So, at least give the article credit for being on the cautious side.
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@Richard - unless the launch was seen on radar it isn't calculatable because cruise missiles don't follow a mathematical path such as a parabola - they are steerable or programmed to mask the launch point via movement.
[Free Beacon] CIA Director Mike Pompeo expressed his support for President Donald Trump's recent decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal during an interview on Thursday before more generally discussing the agency's goal to be "more vicious" in fighting its adversaries.
BLUF:
Speaking broadly about his future actions at the CIA, Pompeo said it would "become a much more vicious agency" in fighting U.S. adversaries.
h/t Instapundit
[Townhall] Key Democrats met secretly to confer about the party’s future as America approached the one-year anniversary of their stunning and hilarious humiliation by Donald Trump. The key question they sought to answer: "How can we Democrats appeal to those Jesus-loving, racist idiots who hate science and don’t live on the coast like everyone we know?"
After opening the seminar by refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance, Chuck Schumer gaveled the meeting to order, sparking widespread protests. "Hammers are violent tools of oppression that cause oppressed people to literally shake. We need a national conversation about assault gavels that use automatic high-capacity clips," sputtered the 112 year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein. "Sure, we should be able to have them, but not those, those ... little people out there. They don’t need gavels."
The assembly quickly agreed that in 2018 Democrats must prioritize sensible hammer control, including gavel background checks and ending the tool show loophole, and to enlist Lawrence O’Donnell in their campaign to stop the hammering.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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