Iranian terrorists. Anyone know if the Kurds have a military leader?
related: Breitbart News
Report: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Soleimani Aiding Iraqi Invasion Against Kurds
by John Hayward 10/26/2017 excerpt
Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the notorious Quds Force division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has reportedly been seen in Iraq advising Shiite militias in their attack on the Kurdish Peshmerga, a major U.S. battlefield ally against the Islamic State.
Soleimani was involved in talks between Iran-backed “Popular Mobilization Forces” (PMF) militia units and Iraqi Kurds on Sunday, not long before the first reports of armed clashes between the PMF and Peshmerga.
Soleimani’s Quds Force, which Iran employs to destabilize adversary governments across the Middle East, was instrumental in training and arming the Shiite-dominated militia groups against the Islamic State (ISIS), which is organized around a version of Sunni Islam.
Soleimani reportedly “arrived in the Iraqi Kurdish region on Saturday and visited the tomb of former Iraqi president and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party leader Jalal Talabani, who died on October 3 after years of poor health,” according to a report at the National.
Looks like the Kurds have been sold out again. They need a big power friend and they never seem to come up a winner.
Maybe you should have thought about this when you were spending most of your adult life pushing for the U.S. to invade Iraq and topple its Sunni-dominated Ba'athist government, @SSHOLE.
It's astonishing that so many Freepers were actually pushing for Trump to nominate this useless pr!ck as Secretary of State.
It is a complicated, complex problem with many variables. Turkey will not allow an independent Kurdistan. Nor will Iran and Russia. Under the current Iraqi Constitution, the Kurds have a certain degree of autonomy, but there are limits. The distribution of the oil revenue is a sticking point. A signicant portion of Iraq’s oil facilities are located in what would be Kurdistan. Without this oil revenue, Iraq will be hurt economically.
We don’t need to get involved in a civil war.
The decision whether to allow the Kurds to draw new borders and become a nation is not military, but political
It was a combined pol-mil decision to use Kurds as the backbone of an anti-ISIS army without a follow on plan for their victory
Now it’s Trump’s tar baby and he’s surrounded by the screw ups who created it
How about this is such a mess that the best we can hope for is to defeat ISIS, leave a semblance of stability and walk out of a problem that we cannot solve - which is why you have to despise Bush, Cheney and the neo-cons for ever getting us in the mess in the first place.
Kurds, say hello to the Hmong and the Montagnards......l
“Iran-Dominated Baghdad Invasion of Kurdish Iraq”
If it is that convoluted, maybe it isn’t open enough to “condemn”, and thus open up all types of headaches, when the proper response is to to fight it “under the table”?
Yeah. Let’s send more troops! I’m sure this time our interference in the ME will bear fruit!
He didn’t tweet about the price of beans in China today, either. If he speaks out about something, he’s slammed for it. If he doesn’t speak out, he’s slammed.