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Will the U.S. Help the Kurds Fight ISIS?
New Yorker | AUGUST 4, 2014 | Dexter Filkins

Posted on 08/05/2014 7:13:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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TOPICS: Syria
KEYWORDS: iraq; isis; kurds; kurdsiraq
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1 posted on 08/05/2014 7:13:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Will the US help ISIS wipe out the Kurds?

Probably.

2 posted on 08/05/2014 7:14:55 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not as long as Obama is in office.


3 posted on 08/05/2014 7:15:33 PM PDT by doc1019
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Why not?

Gotta keep our status as number one in the arms business..


4 posted on 08/05/2014 7:17:56 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Kurds are not a protected group for liberals. Unless they sign up for the muslim brotherhood.


5 posted on 08/05/2014 7:18:11 PM PDT by Williams
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To: doc1019

“Not as long as Obama is in office”

I agree. He may give them some token support but in reality he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies.


6 posted on 08/05/2014 7:18:20 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe they can get George H. Bush to swing a “rise up” deal with the Khurds, eh…?

Meh…..

Naw.


7 posted on 08/05/2014 7:18:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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we cannot wait until 2016 for new leadership to start doing the right things . Time has run out for America .


8 posted on 08/05/2014 7:19:46 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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If the Kurds don’t get help from someone they will cease to exist.


9 posted on 08/05/2014 7:21:20 PM PDT by doc1019
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Come on—the man has a pen and A phone! He can just issue an Executive order...or something.


10 posted on 08/05/2014 7:22:40 PM PDT by rbg81
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Yea, right.


11 posted on 08/05/2014 7:23:38 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: Parley Baer

I’m reminded of Alfred’s line from “The Dark Knight”: Some men just want to see the world burn.


12 posted on 08/05/2014 7:23:47 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: MinorityRepublican

Why would the honorable Kurds ask a bunch of betrayers like us for “help”? We’d just abandon them when push came to shove.


13 posted on 08/05/2014 7:24:33 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Under the Tyrant Obama, only terrorists,
especially beheaders, slavers and crucifiers are protected.

Obama breathed life into ISIS through the “rebels”,
and he is happy as a clam they are winning, killing,
enslaving and raping.


14 posted on 08/05/2014 7:25:59 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: MinorityRepublican

No, the Kurds are protecting Christians.


15 posted on 08/05/2014 7:26:17 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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Obama abandoned Iraq. He isn’t going to provide any help at all.


16 posted on 08/05/2014 7:30:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: doc1019

we need to help them , we need to decimate ISIS
we cannot afford to wait for this present ‘leadership ‘ any longer
Those in and around DC need to take action


17 posted on 08/05/2014 7:33:16 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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We need to remember that American leftists are cowards. They don’t have the guts or the martial skills to take on American patriots; therefore, they will try to find favor with whatever radical element that exists in the world to kill us. ISIS will fill the bill as a mercenary army to lead the attack. What the leftists forget, though, is that Americans are the best fighters in the world, bar none.

The leftists are signing their own deserved death warrants.


18 posted on 08/05/2014 7:33:23 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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In 2001 we used the Northern Alliance to bring down the Taliban who did not have the capacity the Kurds have.


19 posted on 08/05/2014 7:34:38 PM PDT by AU72
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By the time we motivate those that could do something about it, it will be too late. The Kurds are on a short timeline, like weeks, before they are overrun by ISIS. Only the President can do anything in a timely manner and I’m sure he won’t.


20 posted on 08/05/2014 7:37:40 PM PDT by doc1019
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