I just got off the phone with a desperate-sounding Kurdish intelligence official, Rooz Bahjat, who said he fears that Kobani could fall to ISIS within the next 24 hours. If it does, he predicts that ISIS will murder thousands in the city, which is crammed with refugees—Kurdish, Turkmen, Christian, and Arab—from other parts of the Syrian charnel house. As many as 50,000 civilians remain in the town, Bahjat said. (read more)the Atlantic
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"Protesters killed in anti-Islamic State clashes across Turkey"
At least 12 people were killed on Tuesday in clashes between Turkish police and Kurdish protesters, who were pressing for more government action to protect the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobane from Islamic State fighters. Violence erupted in the capital Ankara and Istanbul, as well as in several other towns and cities. The situation became tense after a warning from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that Kobane was about to fall. The authorities have declared curfew in six provinces across the country. The three-week assault in Kobane has left more than 400 dead and forced 160.000 people to flee their homes.Scroll.in
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"Syria border town 'about to fall', UN envoy urges action"
IS jihadists launched their assault on the Kobane region three weeks ago, driving back the outnumbered and outgunned Kurdish militia defenders and forcing 200,000 mainly Kurdish refugees to flee to neighbouring Turkey.
But a Kurdish journalist inside the town told AFP there were still thousands of civilians who have refused to abandon their homes.
Yahoo News
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Perhaps Ben Aflack could bravely aid the situation and head out to the front lines? Come on big man. Show us your stuff.
The 'Unwar against not Islam' continues.
A humanitarian crisis. A spreading cancer. Like Ebola - But don't you worry. It's not coming here.
Clinton has said that not intervening in Rwanda was one of his biggest regrets.
We are in the year 2014.
Leon Panetta bashing Obama to sell books: "He says that and a lack of concern for the civil war in Syria — and the president not acting decisively when it was proven that Assad used chemical weapons — helped created fertile ground for ISIS to grow strong." Throws in some Benghazi criticism for good measure.
Love the response over at LI: Hey, Leon Panetta, why didn’t you speak out when it mattered?
Panetta is teeing it up for Hillary. My word these people are gross.
Coming to a city near you.
This is horrific on a scale we find impossible to comprehend. Tens of thousands of Kurds - our reliable allies in the Iraq war - are going to be slaughtered by ISIS and the American president refuses to intervene. He is allowing genocide, no, he is encouraging and enabling genocide.
Air strikes cannot be successful in thwarting an enemy unless there are boots on the ground spotting where the most useful targets are so then can be hit. Obama refuses to allow that.
To state clearly: Barack Obama is allowing the slaughter of tens of thousands of Kurds. He is allowing it because he wants it to happen. He is truly evil.
Panetta is a liar, either through testimony while holding positions of responsibility, or now, in attempting to sell books and gild his reputation. Either way he's indicative of the rot in our political system.
Numerous and unremitting strafing runs by a couple of squadrons of A-10's would greatly reduce the otherwise near certain bloodbath soon to occur. It has to happen, though, before the city falls, while the IS forces are concentrated. It won't happen of course.
Did Barry get the memo that a terrible slaughter is coming to that Syrian town or did his intelligence guys let him down again? Such a genius Hussein is and surrounded by such incompetents. It's a shanda.*
*Shanda. That's scandal for you goyburgers.
Of course Obama is evil. That has been clear for a long time now.
These deaths are just the beginning. It will get worse.
Hey, he was elected twice, so shouldn't those who voted for him bear some of the blame?
Of course. But they will never shoulder the blame.
They will just put their hands out for their Obamaphones or their Affirmative Action sinecures with tenure. That is what they do after all.
Nothing to blame them for because you know it is the fault of white privilege and institutional racism that a black man could not be an effective President.
When you suck so bad that Jimmy Carter is dissing you and people agree with him then you really, really suck.
The Unwar against NotIslam is a government theater production designed to entertain us with the illusion of semi-sensible foreign policy until after the midterms.
After the midterms King Putt will lose interest in obliterating ISIS. He's barely bombing them now.
Obama could be preemptive about this and ask What difference at some point does it make. Thousands will die, but we have our own issues in Ferguson, Missouri. We shouldn't be all full of ourselves with our uppity smug exceptionalism while we drown in our rampant racism, and besides those Kurds don't even look like my kids.
This is what happens when you have a leftist marxist muslim sympathizer in office. What did people think was going to happen? This stuff is in his DNA folks. Taqqiya. It means something.
As happened before, Sitzkrieg is followed by Blitzkrieg.
And once again, while thousands are in jeopardy of being put to a gory death in a real war, instead of using a couple of Wings worth (6 squadrons) of A-10s based in Kurdistan (instead of relatively ineffective and expensive carrier-based fighters that take hours to get on station--same for B-1s based in Diego Garcia) to shred the enemy on the battlefield, Obama has the FBI looking for the beheading Western ISIS spokesman and treating him like a common criminal instead of a terrorist. Yeah, I've got a REAL MENTAL PICTURE of FBI agents traipsing up and down hill and vale in the badlands of Syria and Iraq in ISIS country looking for that guy..
New Orleans is the world premier city of the "get by" philosophy and lifestyle. I know Obamas type very well. ALL he wants to do is enough to "get by" the mid-term elections and be seen to be doing something so as not to alienate the right but not enough to alienate his base on the left. And 2016? Hey, he'll be on the links..
(Besides, he and W. J. Clinton have already proved that all one needs do is "fool enough of the people enough of the time." Seen in that light, Hills should be a lock..)
To state clearly: Barack Obama is allowing the slaughter of tens of thousands of Kurds. He is allowing it because he wants it to happen. He is truly evil.
I don't think he wants it to happen -- I think he is ideologically opposed to intervening in Iraq. Plus the military has been downsized and recommitted to tasks like building hospitals in Africa.
So it's not that he WANTS Kurds to be slaughtered, it's just that he has other priorities?
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