Posted on 08/19/2016 9:42:09 PM PDT by amorphous
Syrian regime jets pounded US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria for a second day, even after the US-led coalition scrambled jets to protect its military advisers working on the ground.
In another escalation of Syria's bloody conflict, warplanes from President Bashar al-Assad's regime were bombarding the city of Hasakeh -- targeting Kurdish forces that for months have worked closely with coalition military advisers helping local fighters combat the Islamic State group.
On Thursday, the United States sent fighter jets to head off air strikes conducted by regime planes and to protect coalition advisers, but the Syrian planes had left by the time they arrived.
It was apparently the first time the coalition had scrambled jets in response to a regime action, and possibly the closest call yet in terms of Syrian forces coming close to killing American or coalition advisers.
"This was done as a measure to protect coalition forces," Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said.
"We will ensure their safety and the Syrian regime would be well-advised not to do things that place them at risk... We view instances that place the coalition at risk with the utmost seriousness and we do have the inherent right of self-defense."
But the Pentagon warning appeared to fall on deaf ears.
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That's got to leave a smudge or two, when some poor soul has to put the accomplishments of Obama administration, to paper.
Erdogan pretty much agreed that Assad stays. Give it a year, you will see them shaking hands.
But really upset Erdogan can become much bigger nuisance than he is now. Closing US bases, leaving NATO, flooding EU with more rapeugees -- these are obvious threats.
One less obvious: Turkey re-oriented fully to the East has no reasons to pay back $400 billions they owe now.
This is very bad. Turkey, Syria, and Russia are working together and the Obama is trying to start a war in Syria via the Kurds.
Syria, like Turkey, subtly supports ISIs against Kurds, and, if not, reforms
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160818/1044403105/russia-turkey-iran-syria.html
I think Erdogan will eventually open the refuge flood gate, as soon as he’s milked it for all he can. If Western Europe isn’t already a basket case, that may put it over the edge.
Not going to be pretty....
I wonder how Greece will fit into all this? Given Greece and Turkey’s history of animosity toward one another.
Yep, and amazing how quickly it's developing, until you look back in history at rapid developments of other conflicts. Things move slowly at first, then all at once.
Dysfunctional Diplomacy.
I really think we should have divided Iraq into three separate countries along ethnic lines.
but Globalists like GWB and GHO don’t believe in borders making good neighbors, they both believe in multicultural drivel.
Multiculturalism only works in the Middle east under an absolute tyrant like Saddam, it don’t work when you are trying to “Nation build a Democracy”
[ This is very bad. Turkey, Syria, and Russia are working together and the Obama is trying to start a war in Syria via the Kurds. ]
gog and magog....
sometimes I wonder if the book of revelations was written by a time traveler escaping a nuclear conflagration and they left it as a warning we will never heed....
The problem with the Kurds is that they want to take over Syria, as well as many other parts of the Middle East that do not belong to them.
The actual borders of Kurdistan reach into turkey and several other countries
Their land should be given back to them
Including the land Kurds took from others through genocide?
I’m much less of a fan of the Kurds after I read some in depth books on the Armenia genocide. I’m not a big fan of the Armenia’s either but they are Christians the Kurds really enjoyed slaughtering any Christians they could get their hands on. They’re not civilized people.
You mean the genocide when Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds back in the last century?
Another line drawn in the sand there senore’ obammy?
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