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will the turks watch the from their tanks or join the fray?

will they wait for all those pesky PKK guys and gals to get overrun first?

guess they re gonna watch...

...poor whirling dervishes,,,

as the Turkish tanks are arrayed, overlooking the battlefield, Erdogan remarks, "i say, I say old chaps, someone really should help those poor kurds before the fellows are overrun".

How come our planes are not helping?
Seems to me the Kurds are the only ground force stepping up and the only capable of givinig isis a run for thier money.

oldr_n_wsr wrote:How come our planes are not helping?
Seems to me the Kurds are the only ground force stepping up and the only capable of givinig isis a run for thier money.

Uh, .... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29526783

Also, not every battle is going to be won by the anti-Daesh side. And some may not even be battles to fight.

ETA:

And I can certainly understand why the Turkish government would be slow to help the Kurds, seeing as how Kurdish paramilitaries have been waging a guerrilla war within Turkey for the last 30 years or so.

Sue U wrote:

oldr_n_wsr wrote:How come our planes are not helping?
Seems to me the Kurds are the only ground force stepping up and the only capable of givinig isis a run for thier money.

Uh, .... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29526783

Also, not every battle is going to be won by the anti-Daesh side. And some may not even be battles to fight.

ETA:

And I can certainly understand why the Turkish government would be slow to help the Kurds, seeing as how Kurdish paramilitaries have been waging a guerrilla war within Turkey for the last 30 years or so.

We should be relentlessly bombing ISIS there. Also lets get some A-10 warthogs to help the kurds. We don't use them any more even if it was the best ground force attack plane ever built.

Also lets get some A-10 warthogs to help the kurds. We don't use them any more even if it was the best ground force attack plane ever built.

Here ya go, oldr...

A-10 Warthog Gets One Last Mission
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-01/a-10-warthogs-final-fight-off-to-war-against-islamic-state

Yeee Haaaaaa!!!!!
The WartHog continues flying.
Now go spank those terrorists. Go in low with your rockets firing and the 30mm blazing. It won't get hurt. It's a tank that flies. Takes a lick and keeps on flying.


Thanks for that Econoline

Just send Morse and Lewis... they know the Isis inside out

that's worth a punt!

I m really afraid that these suckers have or will acquire a crude nuke and will use it on any ground forces sent against them

At last we can make sense of Bill Clinton: "It depends upon what the meaning of the word Isis"

wesw wrote:I m really afraid that these suckers have or will acquire a crude nuke and will use it on any ground forces sent against them

Eliminating themselves and the problem.


yrs,
rubato

unless we assemble a 50 000 man force around bagdad airport, and they just head back to Syria and blow us up along with Bagdad . the prevailing winds will blow it all to iran. the area around chernoble is beautiful now and chock full of healthy wildlife. in fact I would happily move there as part of a medical experiment.

anyone with a strong stomach should google- isis kills children