Posted on 09/11/2014 8:11:58 AM PDT by GonzoII
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...
Naturally any weapons of signifignce the US sends to the Kurds will have to go through Bagdad first. And there the weapons will remain until ISIS comes to claim them.
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.
How well do the Peshmurga and the PKK get along? I can’t believe Obama would do anything to hurt the communist PKK?
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.
4AD?
They deactivated in 1971.
4AD?
They deactivated in 1971.
I think he meant the 4th Infantry Division.
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.
Because the Kurds obtained this "homeland" though mass murder.
So your point is that we should support muslims, because supporting Christians is indirectly supporting muslims. Is that it?
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