Another Massive Fail… Obama Sends 1,000 Paratroopers From Fort Bragg Back to Iraq

I fully expect to see the Kurds not only eventually demand their fair slice of Turkey but a narrow path to the sea splitting the border with Turkey and what’s left of Syria. Dis-regarding the Kurds was a major mistake left over from 1917. And BTW-—they can be a heckuva ally for US-—more dependable than Erdogan/Turkey ever would be.

21 posted on 01/27/2015 2:25:51 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)

I'd think the Kurds could be a stabilizing force in the Middle East. If they don't get the outlet to the Med, then ISIS will....and that would be a disaster.

Does anybody study Geography anymore?

22 posted on 01/27/2015 2:29:30 PM PST by grania

“Operation Inherent Resolve mission.”

Shouldn’t that read Operation Incoherent Resolve?

23 posted on 01/27/2015 2:30:28 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)

I demand to know where all those War Is Not The Answer Signs are?/s

24 posted on 01/27/2015 2:42:19 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)

-——It’s clear that there has to be an independent Kurdistan. -——

I have thought for sometime that everybody that matters not only believes that to be true but are in fact acting to make it so. The “coalition”air engagements are pretty much to aid the Kurds

I can’t discern what is going on with the Kurds and Turkey. I have a gut feeling that the Kurds are not unified. The former Iraqi and Syrian Kurds may not be in agreement with the radical Turkish Kurds and unwelcome simply because they would be a problem rather than a solution

I’m a great fan of Robert Heinlein, a future historian. It is truly great to be an observer and project events forward. Not one month or one year but perhaps 10 or 25 years.

I recently watched Lawrence of Arabia again with an eye on now. With Arab troops, he captured large areas including Damascus. What we see now is the essence of what was happening in Damascus in 1918 all over again. The tribal feuds and distrust would not permit consensus. There is now a fundamentalist Islamic component opposing the progress achieved by the tribes of the GCC that have put aside many of the old fueds.

The dissolution of the Ottoman empire is in process of resolution.....again

25 posted on 01/27/2015 4:10:24 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)

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