In a new video posted online, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claims it has captured weapons and ammunition dropped by the U.S. military that was intended for Kurdish forces defending an embattled Syrian city near the Turkish border.The airdrops Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of U.S. and coalition airstrikes in and near Kobani.In the video, ISIS claims some of the weapons and ammunition was air-dropped by mistake on its positions in Kobani.
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Isn't this just terrorist propaganda.? And don't they love it when we in America and worldwide fall all over ourselves over it? This region and that religion are not ours, yet we continue to try to take charge. Oh well, go for it again. I personally am not predicting any great victories over their deranged hearts and minds.
ReplyDeleteWhere do you get the idea that we're trying to tie charge? Where do you get the idea that any actually serious person is trying to change hearts and minds? All anyone who loves America is advocating is defeating our enemies.
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's not "just propaganda" if they can hold actual US-supplied weapons up to the camera.
We've been trying to take charge in the region during your entire lifetime and mine. Where have you been? The disputed annals are replete with examples. By disputed I mean that the analysis differs and that you will dispute the refutations of many others over the past 7 decades, but I guess that's the stuff war is made of. War on my brother, may all your wishes come true. I'd say that to anybody.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard a more out-to-lunch interpretation of our effort to look out for US and Western interests than that we were trying to "take charge."
ReplyDeleteOut to lunch (or too many cocktails for lunch, since I'm sure you've not had a toke of anything illegal due to your firm conservative values in that regard) more aptly describes your empty response. May I suggest you refresh your knowledge of the history of American intervention middle east by googling same. You will find Policy Analysis 159 from the Cato Institute dated 8.6.91 entitled Ancient History: US Conduct in the Middle East Since World War I I and the Fallacy of Intervention. Try that on for starters and of course get back to me with your disputations and refutations.
ReplyDeleteAh, the Cato Institute. I know you're a busy guy, so you may have missed my discussion of the fact that Cato is like Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell, in the sense that, while such folks are spot on regarding economic liberty, they are dangerously loopy when it comes to foreign policy.
ReplyDeleteWell, well, there's a refutation of a reputation. You have to damn well know we've stuck our nose and a lot of military hardware where we are neither appreciated nor wanted in countries where it is clear we neither belong nor have any clue about what is going on. I'd venture to guess that with your patriotic personality you'd be livid with our brand of imperial we call democratization too if you were born and raised there instead of here, but I don't expect any more understanding from your ilk than the peace and love you fail to demonstrate.. You're still in it to win.
ReplyDeleteI am often a busy guy, but even when busy its pretty easy to whip out the ole cell phone and pound out a few words here during breakd or even otherwise. Ascribing dangerous loopiness to an obvious observation regarding our post war meddling in the middle east is simple fear mongering. But your ilk takes the cake with that. We've neither come a long way nor gone too far yet in the region of which we speak. This rough beast will continue to slouch towards more mayhem.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't "meddle." We responded to threats to us and our allies.
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