Syria

[tdawg87]

1 hour ago, floplag said:

Yes all the issue in the middle east are on Bush... even though they have been going on long before he was in office, lol 
Some of you guys cant help but trip over this partisan bullshit. 

Ok Mr. Moderate.

[UndertheHalo]

They also lied.  Let there be no misunderstanding about that.  They knew the WMD stuff was bullshit.  They knew that Saddam was no friend to Islamic radicals.  And they whipped up the lunatic paranoia of the moment to get people behind the whole thing and turned the country into a big brother surveillance state.  All on the pretext of lies and for the enrichment of the oil industry, themselves and their best fuc*cking pals.  Cheney literally had a map of Iraq carved up for oil companies.  All these guys deserve to spend eternity strapped into Iron Maidens in hell.  

there are literally a million bodies. Fu*ck all of these people forever.  

 

Edited October 10, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[Rico]

 

Lindsey gets pranked by Russians and throws the Kurds under a bus.

[Tank]

2 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

I agree.

And just to "both sides!" that shit, Obama should as well, since he did F*ck all to end it.

he was too busy closing down gitmo.

[St1ck]

28 minutes ago, Rico said:

 

Lindsey gets pranked by Russians and throws the Kurds under a bus.

So he was either full of shit on that call, or full of shit now. 

[RallyMo]

23 hours ago, Adam said:

Gnar shit. 

Someone smarter than me, which is really just @junkorama and Flop, explain how NATO impacts this stuff. So, the US would have to defend Turkey if it is attacked. Are there any rules preventing the US from defending others against Turkey?

It's an interesting question that I truly don't know the answer to. I can say that keeping some of our peeps there, even if minimal, was a good way of helping ensure that Turkey wasn't attacked because an attack while we were there could be seen as an attack on the US, no?

[Jason]

1 hour ago, junkorama said:

It's an interesting question that I truly don't know the answer to. I can say that keeping some of our peeps there, even if minimal, was a good way of helping ensure that Turkey wasn't attacked because an attack while we were there could be seen as an attack on the US, no?

 

I see that your fellow Texans feel the same way

[UndertheHalo]

2 hours ago, junkorama said:

It's an interesting question that I truly don't know the answer to. I can say that keeping some of our peeps there, even if minimal, was a good way of helping ensure that Turkey wasn't attacked because an attack while we were there could be seen as an attack on the US, no?

I think the main benefit of the small number of guys we had there was that neither the Turks or the YPG guys wanted to be risk the possibility of getting tangled up in some action that might cause American casualties.  

[Blarg]

Peacekeeping force!

 

[Adam]

4 hours ago, junkorama said:

It's an interesting question that I truly don't know the answer to. I can say that keeping some of our peeps there, even if minimal, was a good way of helping ensure that Turkey wasn't attacked because an attack while we were there could be seen as an attack on the US, no?

We wrapped this yesterday while you were busy jerking it to grammarly 

[Rico]

 

[UndertheHalo]

The bottom line is that when it comes to choosing between Turkey and the Kurds the United States chooses Turkey.  It is what it is.  It’s an old important alliance and there’s a ton of  $$$$ Involved.  
 

Really a pretty stark and good lesson in what US foreign policy is about on the off chance anyone didn’t understand. 

Edited October 11, 2019 by UndertheHalo

[RallyMo]

1 hour ago, Adam said:

We wrapped this yesterday while you were busy jerking it to grammarly 

Edge: EnglishCop

[Tank]

3 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

The bottom line is that when it comes to choosing between Turkey and the Kurds the United States chooses Turkey.  It is what it is.  It’s an old important alliance and there’s a ton of  $$$$ Involved.  
 

Really a pretty stark and good lesson in what US foreign policy is about on the off chance anyone didn’t understand. 

it's the same reason why the US doesn't formally recognize the Armenian genocide.

[UndertheHalo]

38 minutes ago, Tank said:

it's the same reason why the US doesn't formally recognize the Armenian genocide.

Yep

[Lou]

14 hours ago, Lhalo said:

What I said wasn't partisan. Bush invaded Iraq for financial gain and most likely revenge for his father. There was no good reason to be there and it has cost us dearly in blood and treasure.

I like treasure

[RallyMo]

3 hours ago, Lou said:

I like treasure

You ARE treasure, and we value you.

[Lou]

9 minutes ago, junkorama said:

You ARE treasure, and we value you.

[Rico]

ISIS fighters have broken out of prison. 

[St1ck]

11 minutes ago, Rico said:

ISIS fighters have broken out of prison. 

Damn

[St1ck]

Looks like 5 of them, unless you have other reporting. 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-turkey-syria-prison-bombing-kurds-sdf-a9152536.html

[UndertheHalo]

Probably on account of the prison guard posts being unmanned.  Hate it when that happens !

[Jason]

Oh shit if this is accurate

[UndertheHalo]

That also tends to happen during an invasion. 

[Adam]

"My bad, dawg"