{"id":47574,"date":"2014-09-30T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47574"},"modified":"2014-09-30T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:55:55","slug":"kurd-is-the-new-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47574","title":{"rendered":"Kurd Is The New Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can write off most of what the Obama Administration has done as stupidity born of extremist ideology, or incompetence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But his Administration’s betrayal of the Kurds<\/a>?\u00a0 That’s beyond stupid, beyond depraved.\u00a0 I’ve added emphasis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While we spend tens of millions bombing “ISIS oil refineries” that are little than moonshining stills costing thousands of dollars<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>, which destroyed two Islamic State tanks and then flew away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For all the yapping that both <\/em>sides are doing about “boots on the ground”, the Kurds are there, and are more than ready and capable of doing the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But can our idiot administration get even that right?\u00a0\u00a0 While we pour arms and supplies and aid into the centralized Iraqi army – originally formed to help perpetuate the lunacy of\u00a0unified Shi’ite\/Sunni\/Kurdish Iraq that\u00a0has never existed except as an administrative boundary enforced at gunpoint by successive waves of Ottoman, British and Ba’athist rulers\u00a0– we’re letting the Peshmerga, <\/em>the motivated, experienced, capable Kurdish\u00a0military, die on the vine:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0The 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. “President”:\u00a0 Get the Turks in line, or kick them out of NATO.\u00a0 Let NATO and the Israelis arm and help the Kurds, if you’re not smart and brave enough to do it yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For most of Obama’s cosmic stupidity, I can nod my head and say “see you at election time”.\u00a0 That’s American politics.<\/p>\n

This?\u00a0 This is depravity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And for this?\u00a0 If you support this clown car of an Administration on this depraved <\/em>policy, then my contempt for you is a seething, visceral, boiling-hot mass you are not ready to face.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More on this on the air Saturday.\u00a0 Much, much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can write off most of what the Obama Administration has done as stupidity born of extremist ideology, or incompetence.\u00a0 But his Administration’s betrayal of the Kurds?\u00a0 That’s beyond stupid, beyond depraved.\u00a0 I’ve added emphasis.\u00a0 While we spend tens of millions bombing “ISIS oil refineries” that are little than moonshining stills costing thousands of dollars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47575,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47574\/revisions\/47575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}