US to Make Peshmerga into Professional Army

Peshmerga forces currently fighting IS Militants in Northern Iraq

US to Make Peshmerga into Professional Army

11.09.2014

Hoshmand Sadiq
BasNews, Erbil

The Kurdish Peshmerga Ministry has said that US support in the Kurdistan Region will not end wih sending weapons and military equipment.

The United State plans to make the Peshmerga forces into a professional Army.

“Beside sending military equipment, arming Peshmerga forces and carrying out air strikes against the IS insurgents. The US has agreed to help make Peshmerga forces into a professional army similar to other developed countries through training and military expertise,” said the Spokesman of Peshmerga Ministry Halgord Hikmat to BasNews.

Hikmat did not mention any specific dates that the training will be carried out by the US military experts and commanders.

Previously, Kurdistan Regional President Massoud Barzani asked Peshmerga Minister Mustafa Seyd Qadr to have a plan of nationalizing Peshmerga forces and take them out from under control of Kurdish political parties so that they can become a professional army.

Peshmerga Minister Qadr showed his full support for this plan.

In the recent months, Peshmerga force is the only force currently fighting the Islamic State (IS) Militants in Northern Iraq.

Furthermore, several western countries have approved plans to send military aids to Kurdish Peshmerga forces including US, UK, France and Germany.

Lots of what they'd call Kurdistan is in Turkey.

Yeah, it's a BIG chunk. I looked at it on a map last evening and was a little shocked. No wonder the Turks are concerned.

It can be managed, I think, because it has in the past, but not with the Turkish government leaning increasingly toward Islamism. Something is going to have to give, and it might be Turkey's NATO membership, which would be a strategic change of the first order given Putin's clear desire for an open route to the Mediterranean. We've only been squabbling over the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles for about 2500 years now...

There’s plenty of Pro-western christians. Look at the Maronite militias like the Southern Lebanon Army and the Guardians of the Cedars.

Um, you are aware that the largest Christian parties in Lebanon are allied with Hezbollah and form a political bloc in the Lebanese parliament with Hezbollah? I'm sure they'd love American weapons.

Unfortunately the Maronites are letting idiotic clan disputes get in the way. Plus unfortunately many of them see Syria as a benevolent force as well for intervening.

That doesn’t mean that they don’t like the West though.

Turkey? Ya think? The Kurds with real weapons and plenty of them has got to be chilling Erdogan’s spinehole. Before this is all over I can see the Kurds getting a piece of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, and northern Syria with a narrow path to the ocean. This is a litle detail that Attaturk overlooked when the Brits broke up the Ottomans. The Kurds have always been friendly to US and would be a great ally in the ME. We should help them form up all we can, in part, as a message to the rest of the ME buttdraggers to try to get into at least the 20th century.

Are we going to tell them to obey our ROEs and to be PC and allow Gays and females to serve? Or are we going to train them to kick butt and and let them go by their own ROEs and WIN wars? Look at them, they look like us not those toothless bearded uneducated savages of ISIS, and their roots go back to the Great Kurd, Saladin. And as far as I am concerned, I don’t care what they do with the ISIS prisoners, they can put dirty fouled panties on all their heads.

Um, you are aware that the largest Christian parties in Lebanon are allied with Hezbollah and form a political bloc in the Lebanese parliament with Hezbollah? I'm sure they'd love American weapons.

So your point is that we should support muslims, because supporting Christians is indirectly supporting muslims. Is that it?

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