Posted on 11/23/2015 8:56:11 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
When Bahoz heard the blasts, he guessed they must have come from French jets. There were 14 of them, all around the time that President Francois Hollande said France had started bombing Raqqa.
The capital of ISIS's self-declared caliphate is eerily close to Bahoz's position. A fighter with the Kurdish YPG units, he sits on a series of outposts along a lengthy earth trench that is essentially the front line with Raqqa -- about 20 miles away, across flat, hostile ground.
"Three days ago we saw 14 airstrikes suddenly hit just nearby, and then the French said they'd started bombing," he told CNN, when we were given rare access to his position near the town of Ayn al Issa.
"We will do our best to avenge Paris," he vowed.
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The US, French and Russians should be closely aligned with the Kurds, who are serving as the only ground force capable of seizing and holding gains on the battlefield.
Obama ? Obama ? Obama ?
Doing the job some presidents wont do
We should allow Assad establish a rump state in the West and rest of it should be Kurdistan.
“We should allow Assad establish a rump state in the West and rest of it should be Kurdistan.”
Absolutely. And Kurdistan should reach into northern Iraq as well.
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