I can write off most of what the Obama Administration has done as stupidity born of extremist ideology, or incompetence.
But his Administration’s betrayal of the Kurds? That’s beyond stupid, beyond depraved. I’ve added emphasis.
While we spend tens of millions bombing “ISIS oil refineries” that are little than moonshining stills costing thousands of dollars
As these lines are being written, some 400,000 Kurds in and around the town of Kobane in northern Syria, on the Turkish border, are being besieged and assaulted by massed legions of Islamic State killers armed with scores of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and heavy artillery. Against these, the Kurdish defenders have only AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The Kurds have called on the U.S. to send in air strikes to take out the jihadist forces. In response, the administration sent in two fighter jets Saturday, which destroyed two Islamic State tanks and then flew away.
For all the yapping that both sides are doing about “boots on the ground”, the Kurds are there, and are more than ready and capable of doing the job.
But can our idiot administration get even that right? While we pour arms and supplies and aid into the centralized Iraqi army – originally formed to help perpetuate the lunacy of unified Shi’ite/Sunni/Kurdish Iraq that has never existed except as an administrative boundary enforced at gunpoint by successive waves of Ottoman, British and Ba’athist rulers – we’re letting the Peshmerga, the motivated, experienced, capable Kurdish military, die on the vine:
The Kurds are begging for arms. The administration has not only refused to send arms, but is exerting pressure both on our NATO allies and on Israel not to send any either. Over 150,000 Kurds have fled their homes to try to escape to Turkey, but they are being blocked at the border by Turkish troops. Meanwhile, Turkey is allowing Islamist reinforcements to enter Syria to join the Islamic State, while Islamist elements of the Free Syrian Army, funded and armed by the United States, have joined forces with the group in the genocidal assault on the Kurdish enclave.
The author, Robert Zubrin, compares the situation with the Warsaw Uprising, where Stalin sat on the banks of the Wisla River across from Warsaw and let the Nazis kill off the Polish freedom fighters for him.
Mr. “President”: Get the Turks in line, or kick them out of NATO. Let NATO and the Israelis arm and help the Kurds, if you’re not smart and brave enough to do it yourself.
For most of Obama’s cosmic stupidity, I can nod my head and say “see you at election time”. That’s American politics.
This? This is depravity.
And for this? If you support this clown car of an Administration on this depraved policy, then my contempt for you is a seething, visceral, boiling-hot mass you are not ready to face.
More on this on the air Saturday. Much, much more.
A verbal battle royale over the Non-Aggression Principle, between you and a certain blonde extreme libertarian who you have had as a guest on your show before would be most interesting. Throw in the real life person that inspired “Garth Mueller” and that would be even better.
Megan Kelly had a very interesting interview with a Christian Pastor in Baghdad last night. When he was asked if he had any fear his answer was not for himself but, he described a conversation with one of the soldiers guarding him. The Pastor asked the Iraqi soldier what he would do when ISIS came, the soldier’s answer was that he would strip off his uniform and run away. The pastor then asked why are you a soldier then? the answer was because the soldier needed the money.
Everything “going to the Kurds” is stopping in Baghdad and will likely fall into the hands of ISIS.
There are no good choices here. My own view is that the least-worst course of action is to arm the Kurds (Fuck Turkey. What have they done for us ever, let alone lately) and sell the Israelis anything they want, cash on the barrel in both cases.
Of course, given that all of this is for the most part the continuation of a millennial-long conflict of Sunni vs. Shia, Stay the Fuck Out And Let Them Get On With It isn’t exactly unattractive.