Posted on 10/14/2014 9:21:41 AM PDT by GonzoII
Kurdish fighters have retaken control of a strategic hilltop overlooking the town of Kobani near the border with Turkey.
News of the advance emerged after activists confirmed the US-led coalition had launched several air strikes on positions of Islamic State group militants in northern and eastern Syria.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees say some of the air strikes targeted the eastern town of Mayadeen.
The Observatory said the bombardment hit oil refineries near Mayadeen, sparking a huge fire.
Idriss Nassan, a local Kurdish official from Kobani, added that intense air strikes had hit members of the Islamic State group around the town.
Mr Nassan said Kurdish militiamen captured the Tel Shair hill that overlooks the town and brought down the black flag of the Islamic State group.
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“Just think, if these Kurds had some better arms what they could do”
I agree. But Obama sees them as a “problem”.
I’m telling, these Kurds are really fierce fighters.
They only have AK-47 and rocket launchers to work with (including a depleting stockpile) while ISIS has tanks, humvees and other weapons they took from the abandoned US cache.
If the Kurds were only well-armed, imagine what they could accomplish...
How anyone could not gain inspiration from these brave fighters defies logic.
God bless the Kurds.
Yeah, just think what they could do with air support.
And I’d suggest we think of it, because Obola never will.
Theoretically speaking, ISIS should have overrun most of Syria and Iraq with the weapons that they have compared to their opposition. However, they have little training in how to use them, no real experience in combined arms operations, and little to no logistical system. The result is that the new weapons are great for killing a few more people here and there, enhancing the misery across the region, and making it harder for their opposition to push them back.
And while this side-show is going on, how about Baghdad?
If that city falls, then Iraq falls, and that is a strategic disaster.
God bless these Kurds—they fight!
IF the Kurds were armed properly they would have their own country. The Kurds in Syria, Turkey and Iran would join with the semi autonomous region of Iraq. You would then have the country of Kurdistan(loyal middle east, oil rich, ally of the US)
“And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge—and more.”
President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
I think Obama sent the arms intended for the Kurds to Maliki and expected him to pass them along to the Kurds, so the Kurds never got them.
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