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To: TigerClaws
These are the boots in the ground fighting with the Syrian Arab Army and with Russian air support

Finding it a lot tougher to root out sunni islamists village by village, house by house, highway checkpoint by highway checkpoint, hilltop by hilltop - than to lob rockets onto Israeli kibbutzim

16 posted on 12/15/2015 6:15:53 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: silverleaf

“Finding it a lot tougher to root out sunni islamists village by village, house by house, highway checkpoint by highway checkpoint, hilltop by hilltop - than to lob rockets onto Israeli kibbutzim”

Exactly. Probably up against a certain percentage of local boys too. Civil wars are nasty business.

I’ve wondered how good the Iranian Shi’ite infantryman is. Lots of doctrine and gaudy marching. Not all that impressive so far. The Kurdish girls seem to be more effective and without all the grandstanding.


20 posted on 12/15/2015 9:42:26 PM PST by Psalm 144 (100th anniversary of Turkish genocidal jihad against Armenian Christians during WWI)
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