Posted on 08/12/2014 7:06:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
The story in Iraq gets more bizarre by the day. Kurdish territory in Iraq is the only pro-American territory left. Yet the US worries it will splinter off into Kuridistan. Apparently it's better to have a raging civil war as long as the country stays together in one theoretical piece.
This is where the story gets really bizarre. To avoid the appearance of the US giving arms to the Kurds, instead the US will give the Kurds Russian-made arms via the CIA.
Excuse me for asking, but what about sanctions on Russia?
While pondering that question, please consider US to directly arm Kurdish peshmerga forces in bid to thwart Isis offensive.
The Obama administration has announced it will arm the militia forces of Iraqi Kurdistan, to prevent the fall of the final bastion of pro-US territory in Iraq.
The weaponry is said to be light arms and ammunition, brokered not through the department of defense – which supplies Baghdad and its security forces with heavy weaponry – but the Central Intelligence Agency, which is better positioned to supply the Kurdish peshmerga with Russian-made guns like AK-47s that the US military does not use.
The CIA declined to comment.
The idea of arming the Kurds has been the subject of weeks of internal deliberation and official silence by Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisers. It is a fateful step in Iraq’s current crisis, one that risks facilitating the long-term disintegration of Iraq. Several administrations over decades have refrained from arming the peshmerga due to concerns about reprisals from Saddam Hussein and his successors. US officials have demurred for days when asked about the deliberations.
The danger is that arming the peshmerga will facilitate a permanent fragmentation of Iraq, something the Kurds consider a national aspiration. Several disputed and multi-ethnic cities in northern Iraq complicate any peaceful cleavage, as do major oil holdings in both Kurdish and contested territory. The Peshmerga used the June disintegration of Iraqi Army forces running from Isis as an opportunity to seize disputed areas like oil-rich Kirkuk.
Heaven forbid a stable pro-US country with oil reserves might come out of this. Who could possibly want that?
sling attached to FRONT SIGHT POST..? >_<
Got a bad feeling bout this….
How about Israeli made Gallil assault rifles and Merkava tanks? That would be as good or better
Isn’t this what the CIA did in Jordan over the last 3 years and now those weapons are being used by ISIS? Are we playing both sides of the fence in this war? What the hell is going on here?
Okay.
That’s just weird. ..
Got them from Grenada?
Now we are giving our tax dollars to the Russians. Great.
Its not unusual for us to supply Russian weapons.
If I recall correctly there were some complaints about us not sanctioning Russian arms manufacturers because the CIA resisted.
We almost always play both sides.
Well you know bath house Barry. He signed an executive order banning the importation of Russian made rifles like Saiga, but the high and mighty Barry then turns around and pays Russia to send guns to the Kurds.
Should have done this months ago.
actually we bought them from Russia, while there is a trade embargo going on. Our administration is so hypocritical. 3rd world nations are laughing at us. Our won country is in chaos here. Our police are shooting kids, drugs are flowing like water over the border with Illegals, our stock market is built on a myth, and our most important issue is whether we should give our confused young boys estrogen at 11 because someone thinks they might really be a girl because he played with a doll once.
You’re guess is as good as mine.
This sort of thing has been going on for a lot longer than Obama has been president.
“Got a bad feeling bout this….”
I don’t.
Get that S@$@ in there ASAP. And some artillery as well. Drones don’t do suppression or CBF.
Get the Navy in there too while they’re at it.
Irbil bump.
Yeah, I’m all for arming the kurds. They have a history of being friendly to us despite our lack of loyalty to them.
Looks like it is attached in the proper place. Just wrapped around the sight to keep it out of the way. Still kind of odd.
why exactly did the WH announce this?
Why not get the Russians to give Russian arms to the Kurds instead of making it look like the Russians are giving Russian arms to the Kurds.
For the last several days the Kurds have been saying, “where are the weapons they claim they’ve sent us”? Guess we know now..
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.