Posted on Jun 2, 2015
The Kurds are an awesome example of the kind of people, culture, and bad-assery the middle east needs supported. What are your thoughts?
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The Kurds have done very well with not much aside from fierce wills and determination. They need to be armed to the teeth and given as much support as possible, and the Iraqis need to be made to understand that the Kurds are fighting for and with them and pushed to integrate their fighting forces with better communication and collaborating maneuvers.
Thoughts?
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/05/30/kurdish-fighters-in-syria-on-the-march-against-isis.html
Thoughts?
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/05/30/kurdish-fighters-in-syria-on-the-march-against-isis.html
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I feel that given their contributions, and good faith relationships, they will come out ok when all this is said and done. The Iraqis and Kurds actually signed an oil sharing agreement after the Kurds took back the Kirkuk oilfields. It was a pretty unprecedented development given their history.
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SSgt Cedric Hathway
We need to follow through with them and support them. We abandoned them after the first Gulf war, I would be horribly embarrassed if we do it again!
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when the war kicked off i was in Irbal and these guys were are guards protecting us while we maintained our Pavelows and the crews flew combat missions non-stop. they should get our full support right now
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look up the area of traditional Kurdistan - if we could negotiate an independent Kurdistan out of Iraq, we would have an ally, if we could negotiate for Turkey to give up a little slice of their southern border(not all of traditional Kurdistan) and for Syria to give up a little slice of their eastern border(not all of traditional Kurdistan), we would have a serious ally for all time
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I worked with and got to train some of the Peshmerga on a DIB sight outside of Mosul. The Pesh are hard working and they were diligent with the training we gave them. The Iraqi Army was lazy in comparison. I have great respect for this small army. With the right resources, there is no doubt in my mind that they could crush ISIS.
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The Kurds are the ONLY group in the Middle East (outside of Israel) that deserve our support. Not only should we arm them but we should wholeheartedly support a Kurdish state....
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Having worked with the Kurds in northern Iraq, I would support them completely. They are the only people in the area that are relatively trustworthy and will fight.
MSgt Milulski does seem to be referring to the PKK which was originally a communist organization and at its height of power controlled areas of southern Turkey and Syria. In recent years it’s tried move always from hard line Marxist ideology.
They should not be confused however with Iraqi Kurds who are primarily PUK and KDP. (See PKK, PUK, KDP)
MSgt Milulski does seem to be referring to the PKK which was originally a communist organization and at its height of power controlled areas of southern Turkey and Syria. In recent years it’s tried move always from hard line Marxist ideology.
They should not be confused however with Iraqi Kurds who are primarily PUK and KDP. (See PKK, PUK, KDP)
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Brian Leach
The PKK has really moved away from the Lenin/Marx nonsense. Alot of their current line comes from a left-libertarian thinker and Vermonter named Murray Bookchin.
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I am impressed with the way the Kurds fought off ISIS in Kobani, and securing safe passage lanes for their refugees with a few hundred fighters. Now they have several thousand fighters and are the most reliable anti-ISIS fighters in the ME. However, I feel they are too small to take on the whole of ISIS at one time.
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rt.com - shows - documentary
Her War: Women vs ISIS
documentary of the women who join the YPG to defend Kurdistan - interviews, showing their basic, and lives in training
Her War: Women vs ISIS
documentary of the women who join the YPG to defend Kurdistan - interviews, showing their basic, and lives in training
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http://www.businessinsider.com/the-kurds-are-pushing-deeper-into-an-isis-stronghold-on-the-syriaturkey-border-2015-6
New news on the Kurds being badass.
New news on the Kurds being badass.
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joeyl.com - blog - guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan
portrait photographer's journey to do portraits of the Kurds
wonderful article and photos
portrait photographer's journey to do portraits of the Kurds
wonderful article and photos
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