AIR STRIKE CONSEQUENCES
"... Airstrikes are in part to protect American advisors sent earlier to Erbil to support Kurds there because Iraqi central government won’t... the U.S. is already in. It is highly likely that U.S. Special Forces are active on the ground, conducting reconnaissance missions and laser-designating targets for circling U.S. aircraft. If U.S. planes are overhead, U.S. search and rescue assets are not far away, perhaps in desert forward operating positions... via airstrikes, the U.S. has gone all-in on side of Iraqi Shias and Kurds [against the Sunnis]... This is how bigger wars begin..."
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/08/08/why-airstrikes-in-iraq-are-a-mistake/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Friday, August 08, 2014
OBAMA AIR PROTECTION OF KURDS IS DEJA VUE
"... the prospect of thousands of Kurds dying of hunger or thirst in the mountains on his watch upset [George H. W. Bush] ... So he ordered a “no-fly zone” instituted over the Kurdish portions of northern Iraq. US planes flew hundreds of missions... (Now) Obama’s hope that the so-called “Islamic State” can be stopped by US air power is likely forlorn. The IS is a guerrilla force, not a conventional army. But one thing is certain. A US-policed no fly zone or no go zone over Iraqi Kurdistan is a commitment that cannot easily be withdrawn and could last decades, embroiling the US in further conflict."
http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/airstrikes-protect-again.html
"... the prospect of thousands of Kurds dying of hunger or thirst in the mountains on his watch upset [George H. W. Bush] ... So he ordered a “no-fly zone” instituted over the Kurdish portions of northern Iraq. US planes flew hundreds of missions... (Now) Obama’s hope that the so-called “Islamic State” can be stopped by US air power is likely forlorn. The IS is a guerrilla force, not a conventional army. But one thing is certain. A US-policed no fly zone or no go zone over Iraqi Kurdistan is a commitment that cannot easily be withdrawn and could last decades, embroiling the US in further conflict."
http://www.juancole.com/2014/08/airstrikes-protect-again.html
