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2014-10-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Kurdish Peshmerga fighter Rehana may have been decapitated

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Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 This is our land our own and if we don't do it, who else will?

Such people should be supported far better than what we are doing.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-27 11:34|| 2014-10-27 11:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Unless it is inconvenient. Or we have an afternoon tee time.

Posted by SteveS 2014-10-27 13:39|| 2014-10-27 13:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The sad part is, were I to be training these folks, I would have to be dead honest and tell them to never completely trust the American government with matters vital to the Kurds survival. Ask the Hmong. Ask the Montagnards. Ask the Shia in the south of Iraq about 1991 when Pres GHW Bush called for a revolt during Desert Storm, and then had us sit passively across the river while Saddam's gunships and troops massacred them.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-27 15:10|| 2014-10-27 15:10|| Front Page Top

#4 ...it didn't help in the quickly established cease fire agreement the command negotiating it allowed the authorization of the use of helicopters by Saddam* instead of simply saying - if it flies, it dies.

* oh, but you destroyed our bridges, how can we get around? Swim.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-27 15:31|| 2014-10-27 15:31|| Front Page Top

#5 In one of those amusing bits of syncronicity our universe is famous for, over at Wretchard's, he has a piece up titled "No Better Enemy, No Worse Friend".

It starts out: Back in 1968, Henry Kissinger once observed that “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”.

Posted by SteveS 2014-10-27 20:27|| 2014-10-27 20:27|| Front Page Top

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