In a statement today, US coalition spokesman Col. Ryan Dillon reported on a massive US airstrike against the eastern Syrian town of Sharah, hitting what is claimed to be “ISIS headquarters.”
The attack, which took place on Saturday and appears not to have been reported until today, must’ve been massive, as Col. Dillon claimed it had killed 150 ISIS fighters within the “headquarters.”
Dillon added that the headquarters had been under constant surveillance, and that the US believes it was impossible for any civilians to have been killed in the attack, meaning they are certain all the slain were “fighters.”
Of course, there is little evidence that is actually the case, but it is in keeping with the Pentagon’s long-standing determination to preclude the idea of civilian casualties before taking any serious look at the identities of their airstrikes, and then dismiss any reports that emerge later as “not credible.”
They probably figure bigger bombs destroy more evidence.
New ISIS headquarters? Did not US declare ISIS gone? I understand some small units trying to do some damage, but this is a job for law enforcement and local government, not US military. And if indeed ISIS is coming back — who is financing it, supplying it, and providing shelter. Otherwise, it is inconceivable that any force could be put together under US noses.
It is really necessary for US to withdraw from that area, and allow Arab local governments with the assistance from Damascus to shore up local security, get finances to fix essential infastructure, create jobs, and revive agriculture and trade. This has been dine in many areas throughout Syria under agreements with lical government.
As it stands now, Kurds have overstayed their wellcome in most of the Euphrates valley area, and locals need to take over security. Kurds are thin on the ground, with the exception of few towns and regions they are majority. So, unless US intends to set up there 51st state, it is time to let locals rule and provide for their own security. The dillema for US is — those would rather be part of Syria rather then US contrilled Kurdistan. Thus, US is creating deliberately this vacuum, and suddenly “somebody” is supplying some ISIS action — and happy days are gere again. How about LETTING PEOPLE VOTE, so they can freely decide if they wish to be part of Syria or US controlled territory.
Damn Bianca now you’re defending ISIS the people who were raping, killing, torturing innocent civilians doesn’t surprise me. People on this forum are starting to realize America isn’t the only country in Syria and we’re not invading countries to prop up a dictator who was dropping bombs on his people while having his elections. America isn’t invading Syria to install a proxy force on Syrias borders, America is fighting ISIS and I know you fancy yourself a reporter or correspondent even though you’ve never been to an actual warzone or conflict zone but, save the Kool aid for yourself. People on this site can see Turkey is invading Syria and is ethnically cleansing it’s borders. People know Assad would rather have the Kurds on his borders instead of the Sunni Muslims that want to remove him. There are still some ISIS fighters in Syria instead of writing and plagiarizing other people’s stories about what’s going on over there you should go get a first hand look and quit spewing this anti-America propaganda already.
You got ease up on those meds.. Or maybe even take more so you don’t draw your gun so quick… Especially on Bianca who has added so much antiwar vigor to the conversation for so long. Perhaps even check if your prescription is the correct one, in many ways like what you injest and how you respond to posts here..!
I think Bianca can speak for herself if she’s even a real person and maybe you should go take some testosterone shots and grow a pair.I don’t threaten people on Anti-war forums or pick fights with people I’ll never see in real life. You can pretend to be a tough guy on ironically Anti-war forum which is comical in itself and defend Bianca because your probably a nerd living in your parents basement with your blow up doll because your so hard up. Now go chug a giant glass of Putin juice. I’m out…
… of your mind…
Wow, what to SAY…. Cowboy, How do you get that Bianca supports ISIS… Just because she doesn’t want American proxy occupation overthrow forces on Syria’s border trying to oust him, but claiming they are fighting ISIS who they have supported and sustained off and on throughout this Anglo/ American attemped putsch. Read see (I) (A)… Or are they they the Pent A Gone guys..
Attacks on Bianca by newbys like YOU ring even more hollow than your pro-interventionist arguments & assumptions…
I wonder what your experiences are that grant you presumed superior understanding and insight into the messes we have created throughout the Middle East & Africa..
Dear Cowboy — saying so does not make it so. You are used to the era when the neocons just defined new reality, and that was that. Armies of scribes diligently went to work explaining new reality to us. You belong to this gone with the wind era.
Reality can no longer be contained behind tha wall of lies created for our consumption. We no longer buy that stale merchandise, even on sale.
Playing these verbal tricks on anyone with your stale tools is innefective — and picking me as your target shows poor taste. I am like most people who comment in this site, in quest of real information. Knowledge is power, it lets you see beyond fhe walls set up by the self-appointed elites, to keep us ignorant.
Just because the inverted morality of neocon make-believe world induces you see what does not exists — it does not follow that everybody is equally blind.
Assad is bad because the demonization is the pseudo-Christian tool for defining good and evil, preventing any debate. So even though — or because of — Assad’s defense of Christians, makes neocons fume, he is a butcher. Preservation of a secular state is a crime. A moment any group fires a fist shot, it is automatically on the same level as the Government, and must be protected against the Army. The list of absurdities gies on and on, and excuses for staying on somebody’s land uninvited — is endless.
While our country has to go without, our children, our elderly, our mothers and fathers, our working men and women, our young lioking for their place under the son. These are also victims of our deranged elite — divorced from reality of people.
And today, Turkey must also get involved to send the message to US and its chosen proxies — Kurds, that war on ISIS is over, and it is time for Kurds to lay down arms — and integrate back into Syria. Starting with Afrin. Region that never participated in fighting ISIS with US, never was endangered by Syrian Government, just the opposite, aid was delivered when Idlib chaos threatened supply routes.
Now, they with US support for armed YPG refuse to reintegrate with Syria. Negotiations were false, just about anything US did in Syria. Turkey threat — not taken seriously — was dismissed. Are neocons this stupid as they appear? Isn’t it obvious that nobody in the region supports US staying in Syria — and any form of separatism? They are gamblers, and cannot resist risks. At American people’s expense.
There is no way Turkey would engage in this operation, unless supported by all regional actors, entire Shanghai Cooperation Organization – led by China and Russia. And Turkey can mobilise easily hundreds of thousands from their large standing army. It is very clear that Afrin —,while important in principle, is not the goal in itself. Today, Turkey is shelling Manbij, another ethnucally cleansed town by Kyrdish-US operation. Turkey is amassing troops west of Afrin, just in case YPG uses its buddies in Idlib to break south. And ammasing troups in the north at Al -Hassakah, with two border Kurdish held towns in their sights.
How far is US prepared to defend the patch of Syrian land, against the will of population? Quo Vadis — is what we all need to ask ourselves, not defend indefensible stupidities by feebke minded elite.
Assad wants a buffer zone in the region that borders Turkey because he knows Erdogan wants him removed because he is a Shiite Muslim and Iran and Hezbollah helped deliver his victory against the Sunni Muslims that had a supply route to send fighters and weapons through Erdogans country Turkey. Assad would rather have an autonomous region governed by Kurds that would border Turkey to keep the Sunni Muslims that want to remove him fighting against the Kurds instead of him as a buffer zone for his territory. I think Russia and America came to this agreement to appease Assad but didn’t realize the blowback it’d receive from Erdogan.
Pure fantasy. After what ISIS did to Syrian border, and hundreds of thousands of refugees thst fled to Turkey, there comes US with Kurds to “liberate” them from ISIS, just to give thise Arab and Turkmen towns to Kurds. Mire ethnic cleansing, and creeping Kurdish presence on Syria/Turkey border. Let us see, who wanted this ethnic cleansing? Russia? Syria? Iraq? Turkey? This leaves US and its allies.
Now, as Syria cannot control the border area yet, and does not want to give any mire demonization ammunition to the neocon catalogue of Assad demonic sins by having to confront ethnic cleansers — it is Turkey that must do it.
And what makes you fhink that the defenders of Syria as a sovereign country, do not plan or communicate? That all they do is transactional, and they constantly suspect each other if base motivations, and threachery?
I assure you that there is reallt no difference in the level of intelligence, capability, or capacity to strategize between the West and the Rest. It is the neocon ascendancy in the West that caused this huge mistake by elevating itself above the rest of the planet. Too late now, unless something extraordinary happens. And it can happen only in US, not because it is stronger, but because it still has vitality in population. And still remembers George Washington warning to the young nation. Europe has lost its energy, and while there are sjgns of waking up to neocon perfidity, they are too divided to make a coherent stand.
So now, pay attention to the Rest. They did not ask to be put into this sub-category of humanity, we did it to them. Now they are doing what they can to establish the parity, and then to transform international relations into a more just and mire secure world order. All spelled in Shanghai Cooperation Organization Charter and principles called Shanghai Spirit. The wkrkd is moving on, while we still peddle same ohrases of “democracy” and “ values”, something that is as forlorn as “Proletariat of all countries, unite”.
And for your FYI you have America confused with Russia our dollar is strong and our economy growing by the day. I can by a t- bone steak for 7$ it’s never been better. Gentleman Jack and coca cola!!!
FFS. The dollar has been falling against every major world currency.
“Dollar Resumes Nosedive As China Threatens US With “Appropriate Measures” Over Trade” – Tyler Durden Jan. 24, 2018, ZeroHedge. com.
A major reason the $US is still a major reserve currency is that China pegs its Yuan to the dollar. Its a bit mercenary – they want to export to the U.S., but they buy U.S. products that aren’t banned to them, and more importantly engage in dollar recycling when they purchase U.S. debt.
“How Petrodollars Affect The U.S. Dollar” – Zaw Thiha Tun, Jul. 29, 2015, Investopedia. com
And that $7 t-bone ain’t organic. At the very least you should rinse it good to get rid of the red dye that makes it look fresh and safe.
“Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food” – Bryan Walsh, Aug. 21, 2009, Time. com (Time Magazine).
A good t-bone is more like $US 25, if you break down the t-bone offerings at americanfarmersnetwork. com. 4 t-bone steaks, 100% grass fed, USDA organic, price in at $US 113.
Do you think anybody is bying your
split personality act. One day you are all Trump MAGA, and another, all Russiagate, then yet another — glorifying globalism with obligatory neocon salivating, foam at the mouth, world domination madness.
Try to be a real person instead. If you need help I can offer you my prayers, along with quotations from Trump’s Foreign Policy Strategy of April 2016, to refresh your memory of what is wrong with our country.
The U.S.D.S. fostered IS as part of its continuing policy of harnessing radical Islam to attack noncompliant societies in the Islamic world, and also Russia, while the U.S. public government and D.S. prop up dictators like the so-called royal families of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
People demanding the U.S. leave Syria are quite right in doing so, because all the invasions started with a U.S. sponsored attempted regime change against Assad, who at least doesn’t pretend to be royalty. IS are all radical Islamic foreigners; Iran, then Russia and now Turkey and China all have had to step in with force to shore up their legitimate and peaceful relations with the Syrian people and its secular Muslim government.
Anti-Americanism is largely fostered by the betrayal of trust in their world leadership.
“… According to leading American and British intelligence experts, a declassified Pentagon report confirms that the West accelerated support to extremist rebels in Syria, despite knowing full well the strategy would pave the way for the emergence of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS).
The experts who have spoken out include renowned government whistleblowers such as the Pentagon’s Daniel Ellsberg, the NSA’s Thomas Drake, and the FBI’s Coleen Rowley, among others.
Their remarks demonstrate the fraudulent nature of claims by two other former officials, the CIA’s Michael Morell and the NSA’s John Schindler, both
of whom attempt to absolve the Obama administration of responsibility
for the policy failures exposed by the DIA documents.”
“Ex-intel officials: Pentagon report proves US complicity in ISIS” – Nafeez Ahmed, Jun. 2, 2015, Medium. com
U.S. whistleblowers and truthtellers are probably the only reason the U.S. still has any respect at all. Your statements do not flatter a pro-American position; rather it makes us look like chumps for thinking ignorance can be overcome, positive change can happen and genuine reform is possible.
I heard an expression that some in the media supposedly use: “frontlash”. It is when they right away include in stories about Black or Arab violence against Whites, in the U.S. or Europe, much hand-wringing over how it may lead to “racism”. (But never when some White kills, of course. Then the media lead the “racist” chant.) This is “frontlash” by the Pentagon instead.