Posted on 10/20/2014 6:02:22 AM PDT by bestintxas
The U.S. military said late Sunday that it had dropped weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies to Kurdish forces battling to hold the Syrian border town of Kobani against Islamic State militants.
The airdrops were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani. Earlier Sunday, U.S. Central Command (CentCom) said that it had launched 11 airstrikes overnight in the area.
CentCom said U.S. C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani.
Fox News is told by Kurdish officials in the area that they have received the supplies, dropped in open land held by Kurdish fighters.
In a conference call with reporters after CentCom announced the airdrops, senior administration officials said three C-130 planes dropped 27 bundles of small arms, ammunition and medical supplies. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House.
One official said that while the results of the mission are still being assessed, it appeared that "the vast majority" of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters.
The official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace.
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I wonder how many we will have when he leaves office?
Its a great stretch these days to call Turkey an ally.
The Turkey of today is not the Turkey of the Cold War.
Turkey be damned.
Turkey went away when Clinton ignored them, and their secular government was replaced by semi-nutballs (as opposed to full nuts like most of the rest of the region) when the existing government couldn’t point to U.S. support and respect. As a result they’ve repeatedly not been there when needed since then.
“Its a great stretch these days to call Turkey an ally.”
We are both part of NATO, so yes, they are an ally.
Toikkeey is an ally?
Reeeeally??
Ya coulda fooled me.
In this particular case, good for Obama. Turkey would be more than happy for the world to sit back and let ISIS wipe out the Kurds.
Turky is an all when they need us. They’ll let us help them. If we need them, like during the Second Gulf War or now with support to Iraq and the Kurds, they’ve their own agenda. Since they’ve become a less secular more theocratic state, they are less of an ally. Sure they’ll be happy to let NATO put Patriot missiles there to protect Turkey, but they’re doing nothing to help with ISIL except talk, talk, talk, and talk.
Excuse me, I think this is a “good” thing, insofar as any action in the Middle East can be considered good. The Turks are intent on watching the Kurds die, and don’t give a crap if they’re massacred by ISIS. Maybe they’ll settle with ISIS afterwards, but they’re letting ISIS do the killing they don’t want to dirty their hands with.
We should drop a few errant bombs on those Turkish tanks just across the border from where the Kurds are holding off ISIS.
“Excuse me, I think this is a “good” thing, insofar as any action in the Middle East can be considered good. “
No reason to apologize, as it is a good thing to help the Kurds.
The point to be made is that we have a President who does not know diplomacy and is pissing off other countries needlessly.
In times past, there would be competency in the President and State that would “work with” our allies and not agitate them needlessly.
We do not have that now.
I say kick them out of NATO and arm the Greeks, Romania, and Bulgaria to the HILT.
I don’t give a flip about the radical Islamic government of Turkey. The Kurds need our help. It is my guess that the operation was carried out without Obama’s approval or knowledge.
He was probably on the golf course while the planes were in the air.
Lol, yeah, they will help any NATO country. They need to lose their membership.
I agree with this decision and support the kurds. It was obviously pushed by the military. No way Obama would support this move.
I’m still trying to figure out how Turkey became part of the North Atlantic?
“Its a great stretch these days to call Turkey an ally.”
I agree wholeheartedly. Turkey is not an ally. Turkey was once an necessary and good ally when we were facing down Soviet aggression and trying to contain their ability to project power into the Mediterranean. While Pooty-Poot is still a threat our biggest threat is Islamic fundamentalism metastasizing into an Islamic superstate. The most likely candidate to head up a new caliphate is turkey due to history, strategic location, and their economy.
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