Posted on 05/29/2016 12:59:48 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Reversing Course on U.S. Soldiers Wearing Kurdish Rebel Insignia
On Thursday, the Defense Department said that in order to blend in, special-operation forces often don the insignia of forces they accompany. On Friday, after Turkey complained, a spokesman called the action “unauthorized and inappropriate.”
KRISHNADEV CALAMUR MAY 27, 2016
Updated on May 27 at 2:31 p.m. ET
The U.S. Defense Department has ordered American special-operations forces to take down the insignia of a Kurdish rebel group that Turkey regards as a terrorist organization—after angry complaints from Ankara and despite justifying the patches a day earlier.
“Wearing those YPG patches was unauthorized and inappropriate, and corrective action has been taken,” Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) who is based in Baghdad, told reporters at the Pentagon. “We have communicated as much to our military partners and military allies in the region.”
On Thursday, Agence France-Presse, the French news agency, published photographs that showed U.S. special-operations forces alongside fighters from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), near Raqqa, the Syrian city that serves as the de facto capital of the Islamic State. The Americans appeared to be wearing YPG insignia. Turkey, a U.S. ally, regards the YPG as a terrorist group, but the U.S. and its allies do not. The YPG and a host of other Kurdish groups are fighting ISIS, as the Islamic State is also known, in Iraq and Syria.
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Wwwhaaaaa!!!!!
Air drop the Frog photographers (along with the State Dept & DOD weasels) into the closest ISIS stronghold. Photograph that, AFP!
A haiku:
Kenyan appeaser
Makes obvious by his acts
Who he really serves
A surrender monkey haiku:
Frog 5th columnist
We did not learn from the Great War
They’re all Vichy deep down
French. .stupid all around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sAFHBptJE
Justus would be served
I appreciate your haiku.
Kenyan Hymn
Nobody knows the trouble I cause.
They might find out tomorrow.
Dilute currency, play Santa Claws
And from Red China borrow.
Whole hog gung ho for Arab Spring
Give Islamists SAM Stingers
Jihadists are my favorite things
Though they have sticky fingers.
Stevens is dead with four (?) marines?
So? At this point why bother?
Trump won’t let more Jihadists in?
What the heck rhymes with ‘bother’?
Anything to hamper our military.
Pentagon chair polishers setting policy for boots on the ground. Again.
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