This is America. WE don't "cluster bomb prisoners and be done with it".

#29 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2019-10-14 02:28 PM | REPLY

If nobody is guarding them, they're not prisoners. You want to pay Kurds to illegally occupy a part of Syria and hold them in detention for how long exactly?

If somebody showed up and illegally occupied your country, you'd celebrate too when they left.

and if these prisoners are that dangerous, cluster bomb them and be done with it.

The US is not allied with the PKK. The SDF was holding high value prisoners.

#15 | POSTED BY CHUFFY AT 2019-10-14 01:25 AM | REPLY

American Defense Secretary Ashton Carter confirmed "substantial ties" between the PYD/YPG and the PKK.[113] Testifying to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Congress, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, the top U.S. intelligence official, explicitly defined the YPG as the "PKK's militia force in Syria".

hmmm

No regime change. No "No Fly Zone". No permanent, illegal occupation.

You neocons are having a bad week.

Nice. Pick 1 city, ignore all of the occupied territory the Kurds have now. ---- those original borders, right?

designed to ultimately displace the 2.5 million Kurds in northeast Syria.

#1 | POSTED BY AMERICANUNITY AT 2019-10-11 10:22 AM | REPLY

The Kurds are occupying the homes of 3.5 million Muslim refugees that fled to Turkey. They're not from Raqqa, just occupiers. The troops trying to encircle the Kurd forward position are militias pulled from that refugee population.

What happens to them? The Kurds wont let then come home. These people fled ISIS and Kurds and are stuck in camps in Turkey.

SDF/YPG twitter feeds. I don't think that drone claim will pan out, evidence is light so far.

Japanese aircraft where aluminum. Bauxite ore, secured from war with China. A big push behind the oil conquests was when Japan took the Dutch East Indies and 90% of the world's rubber supply with it. Synthetic rubber production required vast oil supplies, not to mention the consumption in fueling the largest fleets and mechanized land armies the world has ever seen.

Did saudi arabia help us in WW2?

#68 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY

"Saudi Aramco's origins trace to the oil shortages of World War I and the exclusion of American companies from Mesopotamia by the United Kingdom and France under the San Remo Petroleum Agreement of 1920.[17] The US administration at the time had popular support for an "Open Door policy", which Herbert Hoover, secretary of commerce, initiated in 1921. Standard Oil of California (SoCal) was among those US companies seeking new sources of oil from abroad.[18]

Through its subsidiary company, the Bahrain Petroleum Co. (BAPCO), SoCal struck oil in Bahrain in May 1932. This event heightened interest in the oil prospects of the Arabian mainland. On 29 May 1933, the Saudi Arabian government granted a concession to SoCal in preference to a rival bid from the Iraq Petroleum Co.[19] The concession allowed SoCal to explore for oil in Saudi Arabia."

Without that oil, US loses the Pacific theater and can't invade Normandy.

It's a meat grinder now. Artillery vs heavily entrenched infantry. When they move in their armor get popped with AT missiles and is easy to trap in the rubble. Israeli has this same problem against Hezbollah. Turkey's answer so far is an encirclement with militias drawn from the refugee population. If those get routed in a Kurd counter-attack, the main Turkish forces still sit behind their border hull down.

How do you know all of this ----?
You constantly make comments on geopolitical foreign affairs that nobody else is making.
Where are you getting your information from?

#24 | POSTED BY JEFFJ AT 2019-10-09 08:11 PM | FLAG:

Crowd sourced intelligence from people on the ground and live conflict maps. You can't hide war anymore.

How do we know that far Eastern Russian troops be-badged themselves and deployed into Ukraine? They took selfies the whole time doing it. Played soccer during rest stops on the way to do it.

How do we know that French made, previously Libyan owned Milan Anti-Tank missiles proliferated into Syria and blew up most of Assad's air force on the ground early on? The people using them made videos and posted them to Liveleak and other sites.

30 minutes ago Islamic militias called the Syrian National Army, a Turk proxy force pulled from the Islamic refugees has taken the neighborhoods on both sides of Gire and are moving to complete an encirclement.

Right now on CivilMilAir they're showing something kind of Turk drone flagged TCT013 at 18,875 ft moving at 106 kts in the vicinity of Mardin crossing from Turkey into Syria just 3 minutes ago.

The Turkish Foreign Minister just threatened to put sanctions on America if we sanction Ankara, as of 1 minute ago.

The Christian Kurd battalion has deployed to the front.

and they don't have all the time in the world, they are confined by logistics and political pressure just like everybody else.

This mission is also a demonstration of the new weapons Turkey is starting to produce. An advertisement.

#94 | POSTED BY J_TREMAIN AT 2019-10-10 09:30 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

They're losing drones and armor very quickly to Kurds with US heavy weapons.

Riot at a ISIS Wife camp. They set their tents on fire.

Good time to freak out. The 3.6 million refugees their group tortured, murdered, and drove from their homes which was in turn conquered by Kurds that don't want them back. "Those people" are coming back, and they'll murder every ISIS person they see.

Pinch, you must be awesome at parties. Just randomly screaming at people over politics.

After 24 hours of battle, with Turkey having the advantages of air supremacy, heavy armor, field guns, and allied Islamic militias, the Turks have managed to move less than a mile anywhere along the entire front.

Europe is mad, but not so mad they'll do something in the face of Erdogan promising to send the 3.6 million refugees on into the EU.

If cameras were great, you wouldn't see all the additional mirrors on big rigs.

50 Americans. That was all that was moved out of the way. As they were leaving, US arms convoys were unloading heavy weapons to the Kurds.

and now the Kurds have announced they are going to use human shields.

...

and to get the timeline correct, Operation Anfal, the Iraqi Kurd genocide, was in 1988, which was part of the greater Iraqi Arabization campaign that started in 1975. Kuwait wasn't invaded until 1990.

But they helped us in Iraq and Bush Sr. abandoned them.

#1 | POSTED BY DANNI AT 2019-10-09 05:30 PM | FLAG:

Yes, because the only other option involved invading Iraq and toppling Saddam.

We did that eventually. It went kind of bad.

and as I noted up-thread, even high supersonic travel for business is an absurd notion.