Coup in Iraq

[MountainRaven]

Actually, the Kurds are doing extremely well right now of fighting IS, all the way up until they ran out of supplies defending the civilians on the mountain in northern Iraq. Once they got more supplies they went back to doing extremely well.

From what I've been hearing, the Syrian Kurds have been responsible for doing most of the IS-kicking, with the Iraqi Kurds mostly falling back. At least until recently, when the Syrian Kurds - with their greater number of recent combat veterans who have spent much of the last two years fighting ISIS - and Iraqi Kurds (and Yazidi militiamen) - whose experiences were primarily of waging a guerrilla war against Saddam Hussein and most of whose fighters have little or no combat experience - have teamed up to kick some IS together.

[KingCobra]

That is literally what we have been briefed the past three months. Of course our f/a-18's are bombing the **** out of tat place makes a huge difference.

[skydivr]

I'd put my money (and support) on the Kurds. They are the only ones who act like the deserve it.

You know, this reminds me almost exactly of what happened after the fall of Tito's Yugoslavia...it took over a decade, a civil war and a whole lot of killing before things leveled out....Taking out the strongman leaves a vacuum that everybody tries to fill....

[ThirdWatcher]

I'd put my money (and support) on the Kurds. They are the only ones who act like the deserve it.

You know, this reminds me almost exactly of what happened after the fall of Tito's Yugoslavia...it took over a decade, a civil war and a whole lot of killing before things leveled out....Taking out the strongman leaves a vacuum that everybody tries to fill....

+1 I concur.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Women Take Up Arms Against The Islamic State

http://news.yahoo.com/women-arms-aga...210422192.html

[jpmuscle]

Women Take Up Arms Against The Islamic State

http://news.yahoo.com/women-arms-aga...210422192.html

That'll p*** of the hardliners