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2014-10-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US Reports 18 Strikes Against Islamic Militants In Syria, Iraq

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-10-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 18??? EIGHTEEN???

Geez, if you are going to stop ISIS with air assets, the number of strikes should be 118 or 1118 not 18, that's not very impressive or very "Resolved".

Posted by Mystic 2014-10-23 00:36|| 2014-10-23 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Agreed, yet I can't help but wonder where we'd be today if air strikes had started when Pencilneck cross Champ's "Red Line" a couple of years ago.

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-23 07:31|| 2014-10-23 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Escalation.

Posted by Lionel Thavith3490 2014-10-23 11:28|| 2014-10-23 11:28|| Front Page Top

#4 ISIS continues to move fighters into the Kobane conflict and US aircraft and Kurdish fighters continue to destroy those forces.

Kurds report many of the reinforcements who are killed have international ID's.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-23 13:31|| 2014-10-23 13:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Kurds report many of the reinforcements who are killed have international ID's

Meaning IS is sending in the expendables.

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-23 13:56|| 2014-10-23 13:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Meaning IS is sending in the expendables.

Is there another kind? Brains are clearly not required.

Posted by Sninerong Hupinemble5552 2014-10-23 13:59|| 2014-10-23 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmm. I think I just figured out a safe way to dispose of all those cluster bombs that we are supposed to stop using by 2018 . . . .

Posted by gorb 2014-10-23 15:10|| 2014-10-23 15:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Is there another kind?

Yes. The hard boys. The ones who have been fighting the Syrians and the anti-Syrian rivals for three years.

They're using the dross, the wannabes. They got plenty to of them to throw at the Kurds. Wear the Kurds down. Tie or use up assets that could be used elsewhere.

Lemme know when you start seeing reports of dead Iraqi, Syrian or Chechen IS

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-23 16:13|| 2014-10-23 16:13|| Front Page Top

#9 "Kurds report many of the reinforcements who are killed have international ID's"

Good! Less trouble back home.

Posted by Barbara 2014-10-23 16:54|| 2014-10-23 16:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Many times when a skirmish starts, the Kurds will withdraw and allow ISIS to take the objective, only to call in an airstrike to destroy ISIS when they occupy an objective.

This was the case at Tilsehir hill.

(Link)

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-10-23 18:00|| 2014-10-23 18:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe the headline should have read: "US Reports FA-18 Strikes Against Islamic Militants In Syria, Iraq

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-10-23 18:08|| 2014-10-23 18:08|| Front Page Top

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