Posted on 07/27/2014 5:59:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama famously failed to act when warned that ISIS was preparing to mount an offensive in Western Iraq. This left ISIS free to conquer, with virtually no resistance, city after city in the defense of which American soldiers have shed blood.
Now Obama is receiving new warnings, this time from the Kurds in Northern Iraq. In fact, according to the Washington Post, the Kurds are “pleading for U.S. military aid.”
Unlike the Iraqi government, the Kurds possess a viable military that is prepared to fight ISIS. Indeed, they are fighting ISIS, and fairly effectively.
However, the Kurds now have a 650 mile border to defend, thanks to the abandonment of the area by Iraq’s military forces. Thus, the Kurdish forces are stretched extremely thin.
The Kurds should be receiving a share of the weapons the U.S. is supplying to the Iraqi government. But that, of course, isn’t happening. Mansour Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s intelligence and security chief, told the Post that Baghdad hasn’t provided “a single bullet.”
Meanwhile, says the Post, the ISIS forces attacking the Kurds have seized weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars from retreating Iraqi soldiers. In effect, Baghdad is supplying ISIS while providing the Kurds with nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Barack told them, “So Sunni me.”
The Kurds should be appealing to Russia for help with ISIS.
Obama is not a clown...He is doing exactly what he has wanted for some time...To effectively end the USA as we know it...
This ?man? knows exactly what he’s doing....
I support the Kurds
We have a great opportunity using US airpower and Kurdish fighters to deal a huge defeat to al Qaeda, yet Obama acts as if this is a merely tactical matter of no greater consequence to him than how many Christians end up dead in Iraq. It’s shameful and stunning. The level of fatuousness of this man is nearly equal to his hubris.
The lamentations of the Kurdish women sound sweet in Obama’s ears.
Is it fatuous if he's chosen a side and it's not the side of the Kurds? If he's just stupid then he has an excuse, but what if it's calculated?
The Kurdish people, or Kurds (Kurdish: کورد, Kurd), are an ethnic group in Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which are members of the Iranian branch of Indo-European languages.
The Kurds number about 30 million, the majority living in West Asia, with significant Kurdish diaspora communities in the cities of western Turkey, in Armenia, Georgia, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, Lebanon and, in recent decades, some European countries and the United States.
The Kurds have had partial autonomy in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1991. Nationalist movements in the other Kurdish-populated countries (Turkey, Syria, Iran) push for Kurdish regional autonomy or the creation of a sovereign state.
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From Google:
Nearly three fifths of the Kurds, almost all Kurmanji-speakers, are today at least nominally Sunni Muslims of Shafiite rite. There are also some followers of mainstream Shiitem Islam among the Kurds, particularly in and around the cities of Kirmashan, to Hamadan and Bijar in southern and eastern Kurdistan and the Khurasan. These Shiite Kurds number around half a million.
THEIR loyalty SURE won't be to any "infidels" like us Christians. Why would it be?
The Kurds are ignored to appease Turkey in a desperate attempt to keep the soon-to-be radicalized Muslim nation in NATO. Things are getting very dicey as the hits keep coming faster and faster. The whole world is in upheaval, and many assumptions are coming unglued.
Revisiting Kurdistan: 'If there is a success story in Iraq, it's here'
If you want to know who the “good guys” are in the middle east, pay attention to the group to which obama extends help. The “good guy” are the other group.
Worth repeating!
He is the enemy in our camp. There was a time when there was a special way to deal with the enemy once discovered..................
“He’s a Muslim. “
You know, at one time, I thought that people who believed this were nuts and kooks.
I now apologize to those people.
Nah He will grant them refugee status.
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