"Not a war. But the appearance of a war."
Posted on 09/29/2014 4:04:51 AM PDT by tobyhill
U.S.-led air strikes hit grain silos and other targets in Islamic State-controlled territory in northern and eastern Syria overnight, killing civilians and wounding militants, a group monitoring the war said on Monday.
The aircraft may have mistaken the mills and grain storage areas in the northern Syrian town of Manbij for an Islamic State base, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. There was no immediate comment from Washington.
The United States has targeted Islamic State and other fighters in Syria since last week with the help of Arab allies, and in Iraq since last month. It aims to damage and destroy the bases, forces and supply lines of the al Qaeda offshoot which has captured large areas of both countries.
The strikes in Manbij appeared to have killed only civilians, not fighters, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Observatory which gathers information from sources in Syria.
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No. Syria is an ally of Putin. Syria’s infrastructure is taking the hits. ISIS is not taking the hits.
Barry and the Peeps never make mistakes, you know that. /sarc
Really? You have evidence of any strikes in territory controlled by Assad?
If that were the case, doncha think Assad’s sophisticated anti-aircraft defenses would target American aircraft - instead of remaining silent? If the US is secretly bombing Assad, it’s apparently so secret that even Assad doesn’t seem to be aware of it.
Russia and Syria are allies.
They are if they're in territory controlled by ISIS.
Russia and Syria are allies.
No they're not. The Russian Government and al-Assad's regime are allies - there's a difference. In case you've been living in a bunker the last 3.5 years, Syria is in the middle of a civil war and much of the country is in the control of groups fighting the regime.
I've seen a photo of a P-51 attacking a water tower in Germany during WW II because it looked like a flak tower. Mistakes like that do happen.
"Not a war. But the appearance of a war."
It’s going to be a hungry winter in Syria.
Think? That’s what I expected from the start of this: a while lotta “oops, I missed the terrorist and destroyed Syria’s defenses”.
“...getting Assad to get rid of his WMD...”
Do you mean the WMDs that Saddam Hussein squirreled away in the Bekaa Valley in late 2002?
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