Posted on 06/20/2017 12:28:36 PM PDT by ColdOne
Full Title.............................American fighter jet shoots down armed Assad drone that was 'threatening' US troops - as tensions escalate days after Russia threatened to shoot back after F-18 shot down Syrian fighter jet................................CNN reports the drone dropped several weapons it was carrying near a position where coalition personnel are training and advising partner ground forces in the fight against ISIS.
The armed pro-regime Shaheed-129 UAV was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle at approximately 12:30 a.m. after it displayed hostile intent and advanced on Coalition forces,' according to a statement issued by Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS.
The incident comes one day after a Russian warplane came within five feet of a US Air Force reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea on Monday.
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The neo cons and One Worlders must have their war.
Why there’s another 5 trillion AT LEAST before the US is REALLY in trouble.
And they’ll get every ####ing cent of it.
I NEVER believed a nuclear war could happen.
Lately I’m not so sure.
I would say we are protecting our troops from the Russians and Assad. We are trying to wipe out ISIS. Apparently Assad and the Russians have other ideas.
They need to be removed from that country ... like RIGHT NOW.
I’ve had the same thought. I am not clear who the enemy is in Syria. Actually, reverse that. It would seem that every other player involved in Syria is the enemy. Are we siding with one or another? I understand the war time strategy where sometimes the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” for the time being (think Russia during WWII and Iraq during the Iraq/Iran War). But in the case of Syria, the participants that work for the players are changing teams constantly and I don’t know what our objective is.
So, agreed, what are we doing there? Who are we protecting and why? Obama destabilized the region. We no longer have a peace keeping option to maintain stability.
So you are all for letting ISIS expand and grow?
We have embedded our advisors with al Qaeda and ISIS so now we can claim we are “threatened” if Syria tries to attack them
Our leadership is insane
They actually want al Qaeda and ISIS to overrun and assassinate Assad and his security forces, turning Syria into another Libya of islamist and tribal militias fighting each other
Our policy (not Assad) has driven 25% of Syria out of their country as refugees
I thought we elected a POTUS who campaigned against allowing this confrontational “get Assad out at any cost” policy madness
Instead we got a Pontius Pilate POTUS who washed his hands of it, just turned Syria over to Mattis and Obamas Pentagon. aka “giving the military full authority”
Mr President, you do realize there are people there who want a war with Russia, correct?
I believe they have asked for help -- from their Russian allies.
They have not asked the U.S. to help them in any way. Therefore, the U.S. has no business putting any military resources over there -- PERIOD.
P.S. -- If you think the U.S. military is over there to defeat ISIS, you're delusional.
I’m not sure I read of the anti-Assad forces in that portion of Syria battling ISIS. That area of Syria is now separated from the remaining ISIS controlled parts of Syria by Assad’s government forces. Are these anti-Assad forces affiliated with Islamists such as Al Queda like all the others (except for the Kurdish groups and their allies, of course) that the US has supported? If these non-Kurdish groups are not fighting ISIS, why the hell are we with them?
If we wanted ISIS annihilated we’d be working with the Russians Iranians and Syrian government to take them out
Russia = attacking ISIS and al Qaeda
Iran = attacking ISIS and al Qaeda
Syria = attacking ISIS and al Qaeda
US = attacking Iran Syria and soon, Russia and calling it “self defense”
What’s wrong with this picture?
Our focus has shifted to making sure Syria and Russia and Iran can’t and don’t win the war against ISIS and al Qaeda
Well until President Trump took over the war against ISIS with the Russians and Assad was not going anywhere. All they were doing was holding territory.
Once we really got involved ISIS is being wiped out and Assad’s troop we able to recover ground. Waiting on anyone else to do it is a fools errand. I support President Trump’s war on ISIS. You are one of those people who hold’s their head up high while it is being cut off at the throat.
“If we wanted ISIS annihilated we’d be working with the Russians Iranians and Syrian government to take them out
Russia = attacking ISIS and al Qaeda
Iran = attacking ISIS and al Qaeda
Syria = attacking ISIS and al Qaeda
US = attacking Iran Syria and soon, Russia and calling it “self defense”
What’s wrong with this picture?”
I have seen very little evidence of that. IMHO your picture is wrong. With out help certain forces in Syria now have the headquarter town of ISIS surround and hopefully they are killing them all. It is the Russians and Assad who are attacking the forces who are surrounding ISIS.
You mean Raqqa?
And how we are targeting the Iranians and Syrians as they try to advance toward Raqqa as a “threat” to “us”?
And targeting the Iranians and Syrians as they try to advance on the towns where “we” have allowed ISIS to escape and regroup as “our” trained fighters?
Raqqa which we are trying to take with mostly air strikes killing civilians because we don’t have the ground forces to do the job and would never DREAM of teaming up with the SAA to do the job of “annihilating ISIS?”
As if the Kurds are going to stay and administer Raqqa once “we” liberate it?
Gee I miss that guy
I don’t know what in the hell you are talking about.
All I am saying is we are supporting the forces who have surrounded Raqqa which is the defacto headquarters of ISIS. I am sure we have embedded troop with them. As far as I know we are trying to wipe them out according to General Matis.
Their have been efforts by the Syrians to attack those troops. Saying there are no ground troops is absurd.
President Trump stated that before we know how much Obama had f!cked up the area. This is 2017 and things have changed a lot since 2013 and ISIS is no longer a JV team if they ever were.
Great question. Why would this administration still keep to the last idiots Mideast policies? There is nothing to gain. I have no desire to see tyrants that run countries but Assad,Gaddafi and Hussein kept everything in check and there would never be such an entity such as ISIS.
..........and, I would add to your comment....”what piece of ground in the world would you rather fight ISIS on?”
Also, “are we to the point where we blithely ignore mass murder and mass rape and beheading of children just to make a political point?”
Like the Nazi’s and the Japs, these bastards have to fought and killed en masse with no mercy! I like it over there better than over here.
Charles Krauthammer explains the Syrian War to Tucker Carlson
https://youtu.be/2vuXEm5Km-4
(In a word: Delusional.)
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