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Post by jdredd on Oct 5, 2014 15:12:21 GMT -5
I'm just going to write one quick thing because it's too hot to sit in front of a hot computer, and that is, as I said on a few occasions in the past, I was one of the few Americans who thought we took the wrong side during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. And I think time has vindicated me. IMHO, the Islamist victory over the Russians, aided by Reagan, was an empowering moment for Islamic extremism. Osama said as much. We were blinded by fanatical anti-Communism and we are now reaping the whirlwind. Sorry, Millennials. I apologize for my generation.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 6, 2014 2:39:33 GMT -5
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/even-if-we-defeat-the-islamic-state-well-still-lose-the-bigger-war/2014/10/03/e8c0585e-4353-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?hpid=z3"Yet even as the United States persists in its determination to pacify the Greater Middle East, the final verdict is already in. U.S. military power has never offered an appropriate response to whatever ails the Islamic world. We’ve committed our troops to a fool’s errand. And worse, the errand is also proving unnecessary. With abundant North American energy reserves now accessible — all that shale oil and fracked gas — we don’t need the Persian Gulf oil that ostensibly made our post-1980 military exertions imperative. For whatever reasons, Washington’s national security elites seem oblivious to the implications these resources have for policy in the Middle East. No matter how long it lasts, America’s war for the Greater Middle East will end in failure. And when it does, Americans will discover that it was also superfluous." But in the meanwhile, the Military-Industrial complex will have made a hell of a lot of money.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 8, 2014 11:11:28 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/world/middleeast/isis-syria-coalition-strikes.html?src=me&_r=0"WASHINGTON — As fighters with the Islamic State bore down Tuesday on the Syrian town of Kobani on the Turkish border, President Obama’s plan to fight the militant group without being drawn deeper into the Syrian civil war was coming under acute strain. While Turkish troops watched the fighting in Kobani through a chicken-wire fence, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that the town was about to fall and Kurdish fighters warned of an impending blood bath if they were not reinforced — fears the United States shares. But Mr. Erdogan said Tuesday that Turkey would not get more deeply involved in the conflict with the Islamic State unless the United States agreed to give greater support to rebels trying to unseat the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. That has deepened tensions with President Obama, who would like Turkey to take stronger action against the Islamic State and to leave the fight against Mr. Assad out of it." You mean Turkey can't keep up with the twists and turns of America's misbegotten foreign policy? That suddenly Assad is not so bad? (I think Assad must have connections, probably through his rich businessmen friends)
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Post by jdredd on Oct 10, 2014 11:10:22 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/9/us-turkey-kobani.html"The high-stakes game of chicken between the U.S. and Turkey over who should step in and save the Syrian town of Kobane from an imminent ISIL takeover has exposed a deep divergence between the two NATO allies on critical elements of Syria's future, which analysts suspect may not be resolved until long after the Kurdish enclave falls. Despite an uptick in strikes against insurgent targets descending on the town, the last and possibly best chance for saving Kobane — and in the process appeasing Turkey — might be to consider President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s renewed push for a no-fly zone above his country’s border with Syria, a long-running Turkish demand that would stem the flow of refugees and prevent the incursion of insurgents from the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL) who now control hundreds of miles of the notoriously porous Turkish borders with Syria and Iraq borders. Ankara has been the most critical hold-out from the U.S.-led coalition currently striking ISIL in Syria and Iraq, a consequence of the coalition’s refusal to target Turkey’s foremost enemy in Syria, the Assad regime." Is the problem that the US wants Turkey to fight our War on Terrorism for us? I don't think it works that way. Another Obama foreign policy FUBAR.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 13, 2014 16:28:19 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/isil-chechens-islamicstaterussiaturkeykobane.html"Especially confounding in all this is the adversaries’ use of Washington as leverage against each other. Ankara claims U.S. support in its war against Damascus and Tehran. Yet, at the same time, Tehran recognizes that the U.S. needs its military might and diplomatic skills in the war against ISIL. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States need U.S. airpower to contain the advance of ISIL, while at the same time Riyadh is aware that the Obama administration is making major concessions to Tehran in order to rescue the failing regime in Iraq. This game of thrones across the region is a war of attrition that will not end for decades. For the moment, the balance of power is swinging back and forth between Turkey and Iran. The fall of Kobane would represent a boost to Turkey's power. A defeat of ISIL's Chechen shock troops anywhere would represent a boost to Iran's power. In either case, the U.S. will remain a bit player."
Would we really stab our ally Turkey in the back because we are so freaked out about a few beheadings that we will support Iran against Turkey? Apparently so. I thought we should incinerate Assad when the Syria uprising began, just to stick it to Iran and Putin. Now look where we are.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 20, 2014 3:29:30 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/19/syria-kobane-kurds.html"The U.S. military said Sunday it had airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian border town of Kobane against fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) The airdrops Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobane, near the Turkish border. In a statement Sunday night, U.S. Central Command said U.S. C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said the drops were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobane. Kurdish forces on Thursday had called for more weapons in order to push extremists back from the vulnerable town. U.S. President Barack Obama called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday to discuss the situation in Syria and notify him of the plan to make airdrops Sunday, one administration official told reporters. He would not describe Erdogan's reaction but said U.S. officials are clear about Turkey's opposition to any moves that help Kurdish forces that Turkey views as an enemy." So now we are stabbing our old ally Turkey in the back by supporting their old enemies, the Kurds. Your tax dollars at work, Millennials. This could have unintended consequences we can't even imagine yet.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 28, 2014 20:53:41 GMT -5
bigstory.ap.org/article/751ae2794b9342bfb65493993c538d86/pope-wades-mideast-turmoil-turkish-visit"ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Pope Francis urged Muslim leaders to condemn the "barbaric violence" being committed in Islam's name against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria as he arrived in neighboring Turkey Friday for a delicate visit aimed at improving interfaith ties. Francis sought to offer a balanced message as he met with Turkish political and religious officials at the start of his second trip to the Middle East this year. He reaffirmed that military force was justified to halt the Islamic State group's advance, and called for greater dialogue between Christians, Muslims and people of all faiths to end fundamentalism." Like the West needs your blessing to bomb the hell out of ISIS, Francis. Why encourage them?
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Post by jdredd on Dec 20, 2014 17:46:52 GMT -5
fortune.com/2014/09/13/defense-industry-winner-against-isis/?xid=ob_rss"It’s far too soon to tell how the American escalation in the sprawling, complex mess unfolding in Iraq and Syria will play out. But this much is clear: As our military machine hums into a higher gear, it will produce some winners in the defense industry. New fights mean new stuff, after all. And following the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan—and the belt-tightening at the Pentagon imposed by steep budget cuts—military suppliers are lining up to meet a suddenly restored need for their wares. Presenting his vision for expanding the confrontation with the terrorist group ISIS in a speech to the nation on Wednesday night, President Obama outlined a program of intensified airstrikes designed to keep American troops away from the danger on the ground. So defense analysts are pointing to a pair of sure-bet paydays from the new campaign: for those making and maintaining the aircraft, manned and unmanned, that will swarm the skies over the region, and for those producing the missiles and munitions that will arm them." This is why America is always searching for enemies.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 26, 2014 16:29:26 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30603679"Syrian planes and helicopters have dropped barrel bombs on Islamic State-held areas in the north-east, killing some 40 people, activists say. The barrel-bombs, crudely made drums of explosives, were dropped during Thursday and overnight, targeting al-Bab and Qabaseen near Aleppo. Activists say the government has stepped up air raids in recent days. Some 200,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in 2011.Another 3.2 million people have fled Syria and 7.6 million have been displaced inside the country. Al-Bab, a city of about 100,000 people, has witnessed heavy government air strikes since September, when a US-led coalition started targeting IS in Iraq and Syria." Our new ally Syria helping us out in our war on IS. Are they killing civilians? What difference does it make? Building barrel bombs means jobs, jobs, jobs.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 4, 2015 15:45:19 GMT -5
Changed the name of this thread because I think we are beyond looking for an enemy in the Middle East, we have found one. Listened to a few minutes of moronic Boomer mini-Goebbels Sean Hannity cheerleading for Holy War on Islam in the wake of the immolation of the Jordanian pilot by ISIL (Is that worse than being napalmed like so many Vietnamese were? I don't know, but it is more fuel on the fire). I'm sure Israel is thrilled about it all, but are Millennials ready to accept the consequences of a war like this? Or are they just blindly walking into it while they text away their days? Maybe they all want to be Chris Kyle. Well, as they march off to war I'll be the old coot on his porch yelling "Suckers!".
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Post by jdredd on Feb 17, 2015 22:19:16 GMT -5
It took 70 years to defeat Communism in Europe, and we did it by making countries behind the Iron Curtain so envious of all our stuff that they finally rose up and said "To heck with Communism, we want STUFF". Now there is lots of talk about how we will "defeat" ISIS, and I'm not sure that offering them lots of stuff will do the trick this time. Can we offer them meaning? What is more meaningless than acquiring lots of stuff?
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Post by jdredd on Feb 18, 2015 23:22:37 GMT -5
UH-oh. Now Bill O'Reilly is calling the war against ISIS a Holy War! He must be reading this board(yeah, right)!
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Post by jdredd on Feb 28, 2015 22:53:58 GMT -5
I was driving around last night and I had the amusement of hearing the first half hour of a Glenn Beck special called "Armageddon, the Rise of the Caliphate". Of course the first 20 minutes was Glenn praising himself for being one of the first media types to talk about a "Caliphate", and now that ISIS has proclaimed itself a "Caliphate", whatever that is worth, and the lamestream media is even starting to use it, he can say "told you so" as much as he wants. Then he started in listing the evil crimes of ISIS, but I got home by then, so I missed the rest. But it was good for a laugh.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 12, 2015 10:48:33 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/isil-fighters-launch-attack-iraq-ramadi-150311100558109.html"Iraqi government forces and their allied fighters are continuing to advance towards the centre of Tikrit as part of a major offensive to recapture the strategic city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Army and militia fighters captured part of Tikrit's northern Qadisiya district, the provincial governor said on Wednesday, while in the south of the city, a security officer said another force made a rapid push towards the centre. Video obtained by the AP news agency showed troops and Shia militiamen marching alongside Humvees flying Iraqi military and Shia miltia flags in the city." Just another battle in the thousand year war between Sunni and Shiite. It's too bad American blood and treasure are being wasted fighting it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2015 17:43:21 GMT -5
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