Pentagon officials say that the imminent ISIS takeover of the Kurdish border town of Kobani, despite getting a lot of publicity, won’t actually change the US military strategy against ISIS in Syria.
“Kobani is horrible but right now there’s a lot of horrible in Iraq and Syria,” the unnamed official said, saying Kobani was just one of many targets of the ISIS offensive across the nation.
Though Kurdish officials have tried to present the loss of Kobani as a humanitarian calamity leading to some sort of slaughter, virtually the whole population had already fled to Turkey in the past weeks.
Indeed, with the attacks on Hasakeh yesterday, Kobani isn’t even the largest Kurdish city being sieged by ISIS in Syria. The US airstrikes around Kobani clearly aren’t changing the situation on the ground, but US officials don’t seem to have any alternate strategies anyhow, and are seemingly attacking ISIS for the sake of attacking ISIS.
While Pentagon officials are likely to be criticized for their unwillingness to change strategies in Syria, the absence of a real end-game strategy for what some are now calling a “thirty-year war” is a problem well beyond the fate of Kobani, and reflects the new conflict’s status as an unwinnable war.
US, Dutch, German forces are in Turkey, not far from Kobani. all are NATO. one aim – take Syrian territory, overthrow Assad. all else is for show:
Isis in Kobani: Turkey’s act of abandonment may mark an 'irrevocable breach' with Kurds across the region
A man died and dozens of people were wounded in demonstrations across Turkey today as Kurds vented their fury at the Turkish government for standing by as Isis fighters looked poised to take the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani in view of the Turkish border and the watching Turkish army…
“We are besieged by Turkey, it is not something new,” said Ismet Sheikh Hassan, the Kurdish Defence Chief for the Kobani region…
The Turks were not alone in abandoning Kobani to the Islamic militants. The US was careful not have any direct liaison with Kurdish fighters on the ground though local intelligence should have made their air strikes more effective and might have stopped the Isis advance… http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-ea…
The war criminals and baby killers at the black house are using their own terrorists, ISIL, to take over the north of Syria to be used as pretext to invade and turn it into No Flay Zone. The world is not going to be fooled and wants these mass murderes get lost from the region. These war crimes against humanity of the mass murdereres in Washington and Tel Aviv will never forgotton and will be answered in no time. Expose the mass murderers Black and White.
If the corporate rich who rule our Empire were to go all out to give Kobani back to the Kurds, that would surely change their 30 year war into only a 29 year war. Be realistic.
Funny how we get a blow-by-blow account for cities on the Turkish border, but nary a peep when The Evildoers were attacking major cities in Iraq way back in January. But I guess we're not supposed to remember what happened in January, since that was such a long time ago, and nobody can remember that far back…