The problem come when we listen to the Democrats and "cut and run"
Posted on 08/28/2015 9:41:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Western-backed Kurdish fighters freed seven villages from the clasps of ISIS in northern Iraq in recent days, the U.S.-led coalition battling the militants said Friday.
But the extremists still control broad swathes of land in the war-torn country, where ISIS has waged a terrifying offensive of forced religious conversions and beheadings.
Bolstered by coalition airstrikes, the Peshmerga fighters wrestled back more than 200 square kilometers (80 square miles) near the town of Tuz since August 26, the Combined Joint Task Force said.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
Kurds....doing the job Americans won’t do anymore....or even help out with.
If these ill equipped fighters can do this against the superior numbers of ISIS, can you imagine what they could do if given the equipment to fight a real war.
The problem come when we listen to the Democrats and "cut and run"
I thought nato by means of turkey airstrikes on the kurds, was stopping this kind of success?
What I see now is people asking where is the US? Why are we allowing the slaughter? All the leftist fantasies of US intervention are being played out in dying color, yet no one is watching. We have no goal; we have no leadership; we have no morality.
The money spent on US sorties would be better spent arming the Kurds. They are the only force we can trust in the entire region—we have already armed the bad guys.
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