Turkish media are reporting that F-16s from Turkey are now looming overhead in northern Iraq, and some reports suggest they may have carried out bombing sorties against ISIS, the first stage of a growing international war in Iraq.
President Obama has announced his intentions to commence a US air war in northern Iraq, authorizing airstrikes against ISIS targets in the area, as well as rescue missions to save Yazidis trapped on a mountaintop.
It won’t just be the US and Turkey, either, as France has also pledged non-specific “technical support” to the international war effort to expel ISIS from the region, though at this point French sources say that sending troops is not being considered.
Iran is already involved in the ISIS war, with troops participating in the defense of Iraqi territory. Syria has also carried out some airstrikes against ISIS along what was once the Iraq-Syria border, but now simply straddles the ISIS caliphate.
It’s an unusual collection of nations to be involved in a war, and reflects growing regional concern about the growing ISIS nation, and in particular its recent moves into Iraqi Kurdistan.
Note: Some of the reports this article is based on came out of Iraqi Kurdistan. Though traditionally reliable sources of information, Kurdistan is openly lobbying for US military involvement at this point, and therefore efforts to “manage” information coming out of the region cannot be ruled out.
A kaleidoscopes of misfits, where will it all end? who first will fall to friendly fire?
"…authorizing airstrikes against ISIS targets…"
Well, if reports are accurate, ISIS hold pretty much all the major infrastructure in the north and west, including oil fields and refineries, and dams – though that might not be true based on spotty and "managed" information from the region.
However, this will provide the Imperialists another chance to complete the "Bomb them back to the Stone Age" phase of the Neocon/Zionist plan to emasculate the enemies of Israel on a grand scale and under the guise of a "humanitarian" effort.
Erdogan is a war criminals and is directring the CIA trained terrorist ISIS, but pretend that is agains tthem, like US and the West. The kurds are Israel terrorist agents and North of Iraq is an Israeli spy network. Down with Erdogan, a war criminal and impster.
First, thank you for the comment on Kurdish sources of information. Other news outlets have not added that necessary qualifier.
Second, I see we have 150 guys on the ground already, and their safety is used to define appropriate involvement, in this case airstrikes to protect them. That is how the camel got its nose into Vietnam. It is a very old game.
I'm glad to see we are not doing this alone, and I can't mourn a few bombs on ISIL. But somehow, I don't trust our national security state about getting us involved in Iraq. Gee, wonder why?
Doing the exact opposite of what the national security state says, seems by default and long experience to be the plan most likely to produce "success" (whatever that is).
along come the me to's with plastic swords and football helmuts