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2015-01-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria: 18 Dead as Kurds Battle Regime Forces in Hasakeh

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-01-19 00:21|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 Kurds are accusing the Syrian regime of using cluster bombs against them which are banned by 111 countries in an Oslo International agreement.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-19 11:55|| 2015-01-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Russian is siding with the Syrian regime against the Kurds at least on the so called diplomatic level, regardless of the fact that Kurdish forces have killed numerous Chechen terrorists who went to Syria to fight the Kurds.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-19 12:01|| 2015-01-19 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Kurds battle Syrian Baathist Regime tank in Hasakeh.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-19 12:11|| 2015-01-19 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 The US has been arming the resistance to the Syrian regime. Will the US support the Kurdish forces with air support when attacked by the Assad regime just as they supported the effective Kurdish resistance to ISIS?

This is an issue Centcom is now faced with.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-01-19 12:20|| 2015-01-19 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 The answer should be "Yes we will support the Kurds". Notice what they did: set up autonomous local governments. Not take over, not lord it up, not lay down dictatorial laws or martial laws.

These people should be our natural allies - they hold far more of the ideals we Americans hold dear(excepting the progressives and their President, Obama and his puppeteers VallJar and Soros), in a region that is generally bereft of them.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-01-19 14:47|| 2015-01-19 14:47|| Front Page Top

#6 OS, you've described all the reasons Obama and ValJar oppose helping the Kurds.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2015-01-19 14:58|| 2015-01-19 14:58|| Front Page Top

#7 To be blunt - the Kurds hold no political usefulness for the administration. They aren't "Muslim" enough. They're a thorn for the Iranians, the mullah's temporary military aid to the Kurds aside. That doesn't help with trying to get a legacy-setting nuke deal with the theocracy. They're not (Shiite) Iraqis.

The Kurds are also a pain for the Turks, which by extension, means a political liability with the Muslim Brotherhood and its US groups. Domestically, the Kurds don't appeal to the Left. They aren't the right demographic, the right 'color'; their marxist groups aren't marxist enough. There's no photogenic (and university-educated) Kurds advocating the downfall of the West.

I've probably left something out, but I'll stop before my cynicism really takes hold and I get in trouble.

Posted by Pappy 2015-01-19 16:57|| 2015-01-19 16:57|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't refer to it as 'cynicism.' I refer to it as compassionate dialogue.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-19 17:02|| 2015-01-19 17:02|| Front Page Top

#9 :)

Posted by Shipman 2015-01-19 20:28|| 2015-01-19 20:28|| Front Page Top

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