Well the important thing is to DO something.
Me? I’m going to follow the White House approved message of concern and Tweet a #Hashtag.
I’m very concerned.
Obama will dither while people die. His aim is to do as little to help these people as possible.
What is there to think about? Kill the enemy!
A human being can last only 4 days without water. “Weigh” for another day or two and the administration’s problem will solve itself.
Is Yazidi a country in Africa? If not they’d be better off calling Putin.
They’ll give it some thought.
In a few months, they’ll decide to do something and drop some MREs, only to find that the people have starved to death.
CAN’T THAT FREAKING KENYAN MAKE A DECISION???
Airdrops must originate from either W. Europe or Turkey and I doubt that the latter is in favor of that.
Turks are known to have slaughtered Yazidis in the past.
Remember that there is no such thing as mercy in Islam.
The most powerful national entity in the known universe is only capable of limited, tardy and grudging assistance to a long-standing ally?
How frail, feeble and fallible is your comprehension of foreign policy, duty and honor that this is the only way you know how to respond to this situation?
"O" is a disgrace. SHAME!
What would you wager that we see some MANPADs pop up the second our airplanes fly overhead.
“Weighing,” “discussing,” “considering,” “pondering,” “procrastinating,” “avoiding.”
Airdrops are good, bombing ISIS would help too
Of course once the air-drops start the next thing we will hear about is a pallet of water landing on some poor kid
Press secretary basically said there will be no boots on the ground. I got a real bad feeling about those 40K on the mountain with no escape.
Press secretary basically said there will be no boots on the ground. I got a real bad feeling about those 40K on the mountain with no escape.
Press secretary basically said there will be no boots on the ground. I got a real bad feeling about those 40K on the mountain with no escape.
Turkey’s air force is planning strikes on ISIS at the Kurds’ request; maybe that’s part of the hold up in the White House, to see if the military end of this can be outsourced to someone else.
It gets complicated but Ankara is committed to support of the KRG. It appears to me.
This has some interesting information about the current events in Iraq. IMO.
". . . Ankara has entered into energy deals with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), something which has infuriated the central Iraqi government in Baghdad but which has helped the Kurds further build a foundation for their independence [yes true that] Ankara has been so alarmed by the growing Kurdish autonomy [in Syria and tolerated by Syria, I believe] that it reportedly has provided support for [ISIS] in their fight against the Kurdish militia that controls the region [of Syria],which is affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)." [my emphasis]
more..
". . . the takeover by ISIS in recent days of Mosul and other cities . . . Ankara will likely not only have to deepen its relationship with the KRG . . . but also alter its approach to the Kurds in Syria [I ask: but demand that the Kurds in Syria reject the PKK?]"
more..
"Explains Lehigh University professor and Turkey expert Henri Barkey in an analysis piece on Al-Monitor website: The crisis may force the Turks to rethink some of their policies in Syria. To date, Ankara’s friendship with the Kurds stopped in Iraq; Erdogan and his government have taken an uncompromising position against Syrian Kurds led by the Democratic Union Party of Kurdistan (PYD), an offshoot of the Turkish Kurdish insurgent group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PYD has emerged as the strongest Kurdish group in Syria and has put together an impressive fighting force to defend its territory from both ISIS and the regime. The idea of another autonomous Kurdish region on its borders after the KRG has been anathema to Ankara. Paradoxically, the PYD’s armed elements are some of the only ones that have scored blows against the jihadists. In the face of the ISIS sweep, the PYD and the KRG, which have also had antagonistic relations, appear to be cooperating on defensive measures against ISIS. Turkey may have to reconsider its boycott of the Syrian Kurds to enlarge the anti-ISIS coalition." [my emphasis]
On the WWII seventy years later thread we’ve been watching the tragedy in Warsaw unfold. The Poles rose up because the Soviets were right outside the city, and Stalin sat there for many weeks and let the Nazis annihilate them.
This smacks of that.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Golf it is....