Posted on 08/19/2016 12:11:41 PM PDT by amorphous
Two Syrian Su-24 jets struck Kurdish positions in and near Hasakah, in northeastern Syria, on Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters. The US-led coalition scrambled planes near the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah, after Syrian SU-24 airplanes dropped bombs dangerously near the US Special Forces operators embedded with the Kurdish YPG militia in the area.
The strike came close to US Special Forces operators, who were embedded with the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), comprised of the Kurdish YPG and local Arab militias.
When the strikes began, the coalition forces on the ground tried reaching the Syrian jets on a common radio frequency, but received no response, Davis added. US forces then reached out to the Russian military, using a previously established channel, and the Russians confirmed their aircraft were not involved.
The Americans made it clear that the US would take whatever action is necessary to defend the special operators on the ground, Davis said.
By the time the US jets arrived, the Syrian bombers had already departed. No Americans were wounded in the bombing, according to Davis. The Special Forces were ordered to retreat from the area as a precaution.
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If I had to bet I would say obamas JV team ishilll=isil how he says it.
“if the kurds are in Syria they have no right to be there.”
That’s a ridiculous statement. Kurds have lived in parts of Syria for thousands years. Not that I support our efforts to overthrow Assad, but the western powers that created the “nations” of the middle east deliberately split the Kurds between 4 countries to keep the populations divided and at each others throats to prevent a unified resistance. To say the Kurds have no “right to be there” ignores history.
I disagree respectfully. We are running in fighters from Kurdistan. They are tresspassing on a sovereign nation and they are fair game for bombing. These are not indigenous fighters. I appreciate that we agree on not overthrowing Assad. He has done nothing to us and that “gassing his own people” was total bull crap. We found the chlorine gas plants operated by the insurgents!! They gassed THEIR OWN PEOPLE!!!
The Muslim play in Libya was to overthrow a government and leave the pieces for the Muslim terrorists to pick up.
The Muslim play in Egypt was to put the Muslim Brotherhood into power to put more Muslim terrorists in power. The MB got thrown out.
In Syria, America's FIRST Muslim President, Hussein Obama, is once again backing and arming Muslim terrorists. Hussein is very disappointed that the Syrians will not just give up and die like happened in Libya. And those pesky Russians seem to be blocking Hussein Obama's efforts, Putin must have figured Hussein Obama's motives out.
And he is going to get that pretty soon.
SAMs.
Hussein Obama, America's FIRST Muslim President, is backing the rebels. Who are the rebels? Muslim terrorists who are attempting to overthrow governments so that Muslim terrorists are in charge.
Hussein is using American money and weapons to put Muslim terrorists in power. One day, they will be strong enough to come for you and your family.
Again, Kurdistan is not some country located outside of Syria. There is no country of Kurdistan, and if there was it would be parts of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria where Kurds have lived for thousands of years. They may now control a portion of Iraq that is called Kurdistan, but that doesn’t mean they are “run in from Kurdistan”. It means that Kurds in liberated territory in Iraq are fighting to also free their territory elsewhere. The part of Syria they are fighting for has traditionally been Kurdish majority. I sympathize with the Kurds but I also fear they will eventually be abandoned, because they are allied with us, and America always abandons our allies in these situations. Unlike the Russians who hang in until the last dog dies.
Parts of Iran and Afghanistan, where the Kurds come from. They are foreign invaders in Iraq and Syria. Genocidal invaders.
Check again, Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, where these 4 countries are close on a map is where 'Kurdistan' is also. Promised at the end of WWI, never delivered. Home range of Saladin from the Crusade period.
So true. We have lost ant credibility as an ally .
No it isn't. The Kurds are welcome to go back to their Iranian-Afghan homeland and duke it out there with the squatters.
Geographically challenged.
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