As Iraqi Kurdistan’s Peshmerga launches a new offensive just east of the major ISIS city of Mosul, witnesses on the ground reported US troops loading into armored vehicles and heading eastward, toward the frontlines.The Pentagon refused to confirm where the troops were headed.
The Pentagon would only describe it as an “advise and assist operation to help Kurdish Peshmerga forces.” It is noteworthy that the troops warned reporters present not to take pictures, after similar pictures emerged of US troops embedded with Syrian Kurdish forces, sparking a row with Turkey.
The target of the offensive is a handful of villages along the main road between Mosul and the Kurdish capital of Irbil. The villages have traded hands repeatedly over the past few years, and while the Kurds claimed victory this time in just around 10 hours, a pushback seems inevitable.
US officials have been keen to back offensives around Mosul, with an eye toward eventually attacking the city itself, and recovering it for the Iraqi government. This offensive, however, is unlikely to have any impact on that, as again it is just the usual righting between ISIS and Peshmerga over some frontier villages.
And all the living beings in the Amer/Euro world with an IQ above 60 says, Duh!
As the expansion of American’s Empire continues to grow, they too must do as many a conquering empire of the past (Notably Rome), in all such lands once abused garrisons must be left behind.
Trade missions among the conquered and their masters are seperate of that of common man and a foreigner, and there is no better way to remi d that common man who is realy in control than to have armed encampments and permanent military interventions even into socio religios political realms.
Us military as a seperate body controlled by over 400 popularly elected overseers is thing of past, today it hals the same powers we grant rule Executive Branch Departments, Departments that today make rules becoming laws .
A military commander has powers of discreation available to him in his Command area, choice of who to kil when to kill daily drone strikes and insertiin of US combat trrps into any nations ,excluding but China and Russia proper,ey damned well want to.
How many Americans dead would it take for citizens to protest in these ugly times? I hate to admit–hopefully hundreds to stop this militray madness
The U.S. regime of Obama and Bush Jr should be brought up on war crimes and crimes against humanity. They are directly responsible for this massive death and destruction. Obama’s Nobel peace prize needs to be revoked!
The ‘Yinon Plan’ is now in full swing. Expect to see Iraq broken-up & divided into three smaller states. The creation of s Kurdish state, a Shia state & a Sunni state, ensuring that Iraq can never again rival or threaten Israel’s domination of the region.
Removing the govt of Syria is part of a campaign to isolate Iran, who will ultimately be subjected to a barrage of the same punitive sanctions that left Iraq unable to mount any resistance to the Anglo-US invasion.