Visiting Arbil today on his second day in Iraq, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter praised the Peshmerga, the paramilitary forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), as a model for the entire nation and indeed entire region in the war against ISIS.
“We are trying to build a force throughout the territory of Iraq, and someday in Syria, that can do what the peshmerga does,” Carter said following his meeting with Kurdish President Massoud Barzani.
The Peshmerga has had some success with fighting ISIS head-on, certainly more than the Iraqi military has. This is likely because they haven’t got the enormous morale problems the Iraqi military has struggled with. At the same time, the Peshmerga’s ability to consistently beat ISIS has likely been overstated, as the two sides often trade territory along their mutual frontier.
How the US could even theoretically copy this model elsewhere isn’t clear either. The Peshmerga of Iraqi Kurdistan dates back generations, and doesn’t have analogous factions across the rest of Iraq and Syria. Creating myriad new military forces in the model of them across different cultures in multiple countries is no small ambition, and with the US efforts to create a new faction in Syria yielding no more than a few dozen fighters, it’s unclear how they could manage it.
With Turkish backing and cooperation Peshmerga can topple ISIS…
The actual reality:
With Turkish backing and cooperation ISIS can topple Peshmerga…
I am starting to think the Kurds are behind ISIS
The Kurdish Peshmrrga have been supported by US since the first days of embargo of Iraq and by time US Bush the Minor attacked had formed an autonomous chunk out of Iraq Proper, With their chosen leader a member of Iraq Parliment who spent more days out of country in US Britain and France than IRaq and is still the most powerfull man as Kurditan is now seperate from IRAQ proper.
When did US not fully support both the military and government of Kurdidtan, when Israelplaced its first military installion in a foreign ation,Kurdistan , as they recieved a pipeline direct from Kirkuk to their largest refinery in Israel. Israel also took over and supply of most Peshmerga troops.
They are special ops and carry on clandestine border crossings into IRAN.
Kurds as least one faction got a US territorial status while the largest portion being anti turk and US continued to be killed by both US/Israeli/ and Turkish infantry and air durig embargo and invasion.
US will support only one branch of Kurds. And use Peshmerga Special Troops to do the actual killing, of kurds and other Arab hgroups.
That is what they are paid to do.
Global Research had a very interesting article that pointed out something just so obvious it's so in your face. They show you that photo everybody's seen on the news and newspaper etc. from June 2014 showing an ISIS caravan crossing the dessert (it says) from Syria into Iraq. And indeed it looks like a desert. You don't see a tree or a building or anything. Looks like the surface of Mars as far as the eye can see except there is a blue sky. One would have to wonder where the nearest gas station might be?….And their (ISIS) all in a long single lane caravan of identical Toyota coffee colored jeeps all absolutely spotless, in no need of a car wash (considering they're transverse get a dusty desert), all without a scratch on them like they just rolled off the production line. Is that not odd?
They are all dressing in identical black with AK47's, long knives, ISIS flags etc etc. By then we had been hearing about "ISIS" for six months. (Prior to the first reports of this entity called ISIS all we ever heard about was the Syrian Rebels fighting Assad whom we were supporting and arming). Their had already been numerous reports of ISIS marauding and taking over town after town, beheadings etc. Western governments through their megaphones…..I mean media, we're making it quite clear that these were really really bad guys.
So Global Research asks the simple question: Here they are all in a single lane road out in the middle of a desert like sitting ducks. As a military matter, what would it have taken to just take them all out? ?? We have drones over Yemen, over Pakistan, over Afghanistan. If this was not so sick it would be really funny to ask that obvious question.
If these guys were so bad, why were they not taken out right then and there??
That's how phony this all is. And then when you juxtapose that question with the revelations of Judicial Watch a much bigger picture begins to emerge. Sorry, I ain't buying what they are selling. Not for a minute.