[Newsbot]

Title: Canada To Move Weapons Into Iraq To Bolster Kurdish Forces
Category: Military
Posted By: Goober911
Date: 2014-08-15 14:42:41
Canadian

[N_Fiddledog]

Sounds like things are going better over there. Apparently they had to sneak their leader out of Iraq and back to Syria.

What's his name? Abu backstabr Al Baghedi, or something like that.

Unexpectedly: ISIS leader flees to Syria where U.S. insists he will be safe

[Jabberwalker]

Hmmmm ... surplus white arctic uniforms and webbing?

[BRAH]

Canada's most important weapon.

[BartSimpson]

This is awesome! Given that the .58-caliber 1861 Springfield rifle musket is a formidable weapon I'm sure the Kurds can make good use of it!

[andyt]

$1:

After arming Kurdish forces, Petrolekas said, western nations will face a prolonged humanitarian crisis and a protracted battle — albeit through proxies — to extricate ISIL from northern Iraq and possibly even Syria.

Good luck with that. Who are these proxies who will take on IS and the Sunni militias? The Kurds, with our help can hold their territory, whole different deal trying to invade the Sunni territory. The Iraq army? There's a laugh. Face it, the middle of Iraq is gone. The only way to get it back is find a way to ally with the Sunnis there so they do the heavy lifting of getting rid of IS. They're going to have to be offered either a much better deal within Iraq, or just let them have their own state. I wouldn't blame the Sunnis one bit for being mistrustful of Baghdad and the US for a long time. At one time they were the US' ally in rooting out Al Qaeda in Iraq, until they got fucked over by the Shia dominated government that was supported by the US.

Want to blame Barry? Blame him for not putting pressure on Al Maliki much earlier to give the Sunnis and Kurds a much greater say in the country. He stuck his head in the sand there.

[BartSimpson]

andyt andyt:

The Kurds, with our help can hold their territory, whole different deal trying to invade the Sunni territory.

Don't count the Kurds out. They'll fight pretty hard to capture the Sunni-held oil fields.

[andyt]

Sure, I hope they can take some goodies, but they would be insane to try to hold all of Sunni Iraq. Hope they can capture that dam IS took. But I do wonder about their staying power too. As the US knows, invading is a whole different deal than holding a country.