Kurdistan needs tanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2f6-U72Zk      cream

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/09/09/why-the-u-s-backed-the-kurds/

(august 3rd article - two months ago - about Kurdistan)

do you remember two months ago we were having the bruhaha with the Israeli Jews starting to really pound the Palestinians there in Gaza and the world's media were decrying those Jewish brutes, in various degrees, except maybe in America?

if you read the above article it throws some light on the dynamic between America, Kurdistan and the Shi-ite Bagdad government and ISIS.

Obviously Benji has not attended military officer school where no doubt they explore wars by Napoleon and great tank battles of world war 2 and what not.

But anyway, here's Martin Dempsey just a moment ago talking to Martha Raddatz, one of the ABC journalists that rubs shoulders with snufulupugus on GMA maybe. Anyway, Dempsey says the following:

1) well we only have 5000 iraqi soldiers ( Bagdad based) prepped for battle. We'd like 12 to 15,000.

doesn't that stink of shi-ite incompetence and corruption to you? what are these shi-ites in bagdad doing with all that american money? no doubt if they are like the leaders in afghanistan they fly a suitcase of CIA cash out to Qatar or somewhere like that and bank it....... no-one can accuse ISIS of this, instead, ISIS murder all journalists that aren't arab propagandists, crucify people (literally), etc.... they are very different to eachother............. that's not a real army either 5000 bagdad soldiers.......... that just confirms my suspicions that ISIS will overrun Bagdad eventually.........

Big part of the problem is Obama....... another issue is U.S. Policy in general does not support an independent Kurdish State. This is a big mistake in policy. You are supporting a map drawn up by Winston Churchill all that time ago.

The Kurds right now should be armed with tanks and trained where needed and backed up with U.S. flown helicopters. It's important that the Kurds are independent and strong. Let whoever marry their cousin but the Kurds should have their own Nation. The sooner the Kurds are propped up properly like this the better.

Dempsey comes across to me as, ho-hum, whatever, so long as they don't take the airport in Bagdad and strategic interests like oilfields and dams and what not, we'll just play whack-a-mole with our helicopters and fighter jets, what-evs, anyone for tennis?

In other words, we have to wait for a Republican to get made president in like early 2017, by that time, i guarantee, Obama will have to recant on his no boots on the ground talk. That's a really poor choice of words too. Very ill-advised. See how democracies work? Obama has his advisers, he chooses people agreeable to him, like speech-writers; but how many of these guys served in the military?

I think seriously re-evaluating U.S. policy regarding Kurdish independence is critical now, and arming the Kurds much better is critical. Even just give them money to buy weapons from the Russians.

I wouldn't trust that Bagdad army to defend me from ISIS were i living in Iraq, either, let me tell you.