US to Make Peshmerga into Professional Army

Peshmerga forces currently fighting IS Militants in Northern Iraq

US to Make Peshmerga into Professional Army

11.09.2014

Hoshmand Sadiq
BasNews, Erbil

The Kurdish Peshmerga Ministry has said that US support in the Kurdistan Region will not end wih sending weapons and military equipment.

The United State plans to make the Peshmerga forces into a professional Army.

“Beside sending military equipment, arming Peshmerga forces and carrying out air strikes against the IS insurgents. The US has agreed to help make Peshmerga forces into a professional army similar to other developed countries through training and military expertise,” said the Spokesman of Peshmerga Ministry Halgord Hikmat to BasNews.

Hikmat did not mention any specific dates that the training will be carried out by the US military experts and commanders.

Previously, Kurdistan Regional President Massoud Barzani asked Peshmerga Minister Mustafa Seyd Qadr to have a plan of nationalizing Peshmerga forces and take them out from under control of Kurdish political parties so that they can become a professional army.

Peshmerga Minister Qadr showed his full support for this plan.

In the recent months, Peshmerga force is the only force currently fighting the Islamic State (IS) Militants in Northern Iraq.

Furthermore, several western countries have approved plans to send military aids to Kurdish Peshmerga forces including US, UK, France and Germany.

The Kurds have always been an effective and disciplined fighting force. They were invaluable during both battles for Fallujah.

They just need weapon systems and close air support, and they will defeat ISIL anytime, anywhere.

I’m glad we are arming the Kurds, for now. But the nature of the middle east is that, sooner or later, everything you do eventually bites you in the butt.

Somehow, someway, we will eventually be bitten by the Kurds. They can’t possibly be as saintly as we believe.

Still - for now, they’re the best ‘friend’ in Iraq/Syria - light years better than the ‘moderate rebels’.

Hypothetical....

The US is training the Peshmerga to be a professional army. The Kurds are going to want a lot of autonomy, like total autonomy when this is over. Lots of what they'd call Kurdistan is in Turkey. What's going to happen when the Pesmerga decide to free Turkish Kurds to join their new nation? Turkey's in NATO, so would there be obligations to defend them? Turkey's already being way too kind to ISIS fighters, so it's probably inevitable the fighting spills over into Turkey. Then the US will have obligations to both sides.

Obama's policy isn't to not fight wars. It's to pay others to fight the wars his globalist masters want. I guess the narcissist-in-chief thinks that the globalist wars are okay if someone else fights for him. It hasn't worked real well in Egypt, Libya, and Syria because those who fought the wars don't want to cede power when they've served their purpose.

Bottom line...this mess happened because Obama armed, trained, and financed others to fight his wars. And what he wants to do is more of that. It's insane.

Do we give a flying - whatever - WHAT Turkey thinks at this moment?

They have aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, and are very much interested in re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate, as this fits right in with their world-view of the reincarnation of the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey is no longer a secular state.

And the Peshmerga would make a FINE mercenary army, as long as the support keeps on coming.

But just maybe, the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut, does not WANT to play this particular chess piece.

That’s a real risk.

I hope that these guys do get an independent nation out of N. Iraq, but seriously don’t push it by screwing with Turkey.

They seem sane and realist, but it IS the middle east.

Turkish foreign ministry just announced no US Air strikes will be permitted from any NATO airbase in Turkey. And remember that a lot of the mess that Iraq became resulted from Turkey’s refusal to allow 4 AD to launch from Turkey. So the only US forces in the north of Iraq were special forces and the reinforced battalion of the 173 Bde. Also The UK and Germany will not mount strikes on Syria. Barky really did his homework before making this speech.

I can't see how Zero wouldn't jump at the opportunity to let the media suck us into a fight that ends up with the dissolution of NATO.

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