Syria

[InsideThePark]

Obama authorizes reconnaissance flights over syria. Looking more like the airstrikes strikes may happen after all. Different circumstances obviously.

[Lhalo]

Is he going to bomb Assad's forces or Assad's enemy? I'm so confused.

[Lhalo]

The Syrian rebels have taken over a Golan Heights checkpoint. Maybe it's time to merge the Syria and Israel threads?

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/world/middleeast/golan-heights-al-qaeda-israel-syria.html?_r=0

[Blarg]

If IS wants their asses handed to them they need only to cross the border into Israel.

[HaloMagic]

The Israeli military said one soldier and an Israeli civilian were wounded by “errant fire” from the clashes at Quneitra on Wednesday, prompting an artillery barrage against two Syrian Army positions in the Golan Heights

Isn't the Syrian Army the only thing keeping ISIS out of Israel? Seems silly to help weaken them.

[acro2008]

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has a free pass to fund as much terror as they wish.

Edited August 28, 2014 by acro2008

[Lhalo]

Obama: "We don't have a strategy yet."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/08/28/obama-on-increased-action-against-islamic-state-we-dont-have-a-strategy-yet/?hpid=z1

Dipshit

[InsideThePark]

he's doing the right thing by not rushing into anything but yeah that was a pretty poor way of wording it.

[Jay]

he's doing the right thing by not rushing into anything but yeah that was a pretty poor way of wording it.

That was bad. Might as well have said, "hey, give me a break I've been on vacation."

[Tank]

Obama: "We don't have a strategy yet."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/08/28/obama-on-increased-action-against-islamic-state-we-dont-have-a-strategy-yet/?hpid=z1

Dipshit

 

and we elected him to two terms. shame on us.

[Lhalo]

It's a good topic - Russia.  Personally, I don't think Putin will get in the way.  Iran would be the real problem, they have soldiers actively fighting in Syria, and are basically running the gov't.

 

With no troops on the ground, I don't think this will be Vietnam/Iraq.

Solid prediction.

[Lhalo]

Saudis to send in ground troops. 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-confirms-plans-to-send-troops-to-syria-a6867636.html

[gotbeer]

So instead of sending in ground troops to Iraq where they may have more support, they will send it into Syria where Iran will have a big say in it. 

 

Makes sense.

[gotbeer]

World powers agree to Syria ceasefire

 

I'm assuming that this does not include ISIS and whatever that Al Queda faction is.

[Lhalo]

I find it hard to believe.

[ten ocho recon scout]

World powers agree to Syria ceasefire

I'm assuming that this does not include ISIS and whatever that Al Queda faction is.

exactly. Doubt the rebel groups took part in the little UN summit

[arch stanton]

Kerry mentioned Daesh and alNusra by name as groups not involved in the ceasefire.

[gotbeer]

I find it hard to believe.

 

I actually think this might hold.  The US and Europe already know they can't compete in Syria.  If they keep holding on, it just means more pain for the civilians.  US and Europe can't just keep arming and training the moderate rebels, to face the Hezbola, Iranian, and Russian military.  They just won't hold up.  Then you have the group that looks like they can hold Syria, and a member nation says they are terrorists, along with that group seems to have an "understanding" with Syria and Russia.  As seen by the Kurdish embassy newly open in Moscow.

 

I also noticed in the ceasefire, that there is no mention of ousting Asaad.  IMO, this is mainly Europe saying they can't handle the refugees, and they need the war to end.  And the only way for that to happen is stop the losing battle, and really go after who they need to go after, ISIS and like organizations.

[gotbeer]

Turkish forces shell Syrian air base captured by Kurds

 

This is going to end well.

[Tank]

The Turks are the worst.

If they didn't let us have that air base inside their country then we'd probably hate them as much as everyone else. I don't think anyone likes them.

[ten ocho recon scout]

Just watched a doc on james foley, on HBO. Sad story, theyre down to zero humanity over there, all sides.

The sad reality is there is no good guy

[the dude abides]

2 hospitals and a school bombed in Syria.  It doesn't appear that the US was involved (this time).  Looks like it may be Russia.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/15/middleeast/syria-hospitals-strike/

 

It will be interesting to see if Obama denounces Russia for this.  And by "interesting", I mean "unbelievably f*cking hypocritical."

[gotbeer]

U.S. Spurns Turkey's Demand to Cut Kurdish Ties After Bombing

[ten ocho recon scout]

U.S. Spurns Turkey's Demand to Cut Kurdish Ties After Bombing

hate to admit it, but in the early goings the kurds seem like the most likely group. Only b3cause in events like this, the jihadis are usually quick to take credit. So far no one has...

Im not an intel expert, but i assume if this was isis i think they would hazve claimed it already

[arch stanton]

Kurds is Kurds to the Turks. They'll just go find the most convenient group to kill.