Who are the people that will come to the aid of the world in the war on ISIS?
We hear on every channel about this so-called coalition……it is everywhere and yet we have no idea who is involved and what will their duties be…..I have a list to share….
This came to me via Twitter….I have yet to confirm the list……but I will continue to get at the truth of the matter……
Kerry has gone to the Hill to explain the Obama Plan for dealing with ISIS……….Hagel has gone to the Hill for the same purpose……….Generals have shown up to testify before Congressional committees to also explain……Amb. Power has taken to the airways in an explanation tour of the Obama Plan……everyone is explaining the plan.
The problem is that after everyone has had their say as far as the explanation goes…..there are more questions to be asked…..NO one has any idea what the plan is or what the stated objectives are…..at this point…….other than to “degrade and destroy”…..a cute turning of a phrase that explains NOTHING.
My briefings are aimed at keeping the American people abreast of the background noise that will lead the armed conflict….the noise from the candy ass politicians is a diversion……the real story is platyed out in the shadows……
Good Morning.
Item 1–The House and the Senate have given their approval to part of the plan that will defeat ISIS……so now it is official…Congress has given its permission to return to a war footing……
273-156 vote the House of Representatives approved President Obama’s plan to train, fund, and arm “moderate” Syrian rebels. The bill included a handful of limitations aimed at placating disturbed rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans.
The measure passed easily, 78-22, but the Hill notes that some potential presidential candidates were in the “no” camp,
Let the fun begin.
Item 2–Now that we have a way forward to war the stepping on toes will,.begin….every agency will have its fave tactic and the battling will begin….as a matter of fact is has already begun…..
the CIA has already been covertly equipping Syrian rebels at the instruction of the White House, but has come to find the fighters increasingly disorganized and radicalized as the conflict goes on, with U.S.-supplied arms winding up in the hands of more radical fighters.
Meanwhile, some turf issues are at play. While officials in the CIA are skeptical of the broader strategy to arm and train the rebels, they are also wary of a plan that would give the Pentagon a responsibility that has so far rested with their agency.
I can understand the CIA’s skepticism…..they have been dealing with the situation in Syria for a long time even while the country was worried about how many children were going to invade from the South. Now they will have to compete with others for resources.
Item 3–The big concern in the hearings I watched was the pressing question….troops on the ground? Of course the admin people echoed the prez…..American forces “do not and will not have a combat mission,” he said. “They will support Iraqi forces on the ground as they fight for their own country against these terrorists.” That is a good thing, yes? But that does not answer the question of WHO will be the unfortunate SOBs to be the ‘troops on the ground”?
Item 4–ISIS is preparing for the coming war……..they seem to be consolidating their forces…….
Jihadists in a Syrian stronghold near Iraq have abandoned some bases and redeployed their forces and armour from other positions, with the US military poised to strike, activists said Wednesday.
The Islamic State group (IS) has “started to empty out many of their bases and positions in Deir Ezzor province,” said Abu Osama, an activist from the eastern region mostly under jihadist control.
Speaking to AFP via the Internet, Abu Osama said all of IS’s known positions in Eshara, a town about 60 kilometres (45 miles) east of Deir Ezzor’s provincial capital, had been “shut down”.
They are making all the necessary precautions to be ready for the onslaught…..now, is Iraq doing the same?
Item 5–Have the Iraqis learned anything from America’s two invasions of their country? The answer is that they may have…….part of the problem with the last invasion was the presence of US soldiers in every town and city…….the Iraqi people felt like they were being occupied……
In a new interview with the Associated Press, Iraqi Prime Minister Hayder Abadi ruled out any move to send ground troops to Iraq to engage in combat, insisting they would be unwelcome.
“We don’t want them. We won’t allow them,” declared Abadi, who said he was fine with the ongoing US airstrikes against ISIS but found it “puzzling” that the US had excluded Iran from the Paris summit on ISIS Monday.
Abadi’s comments come just days after Iraqi President Massoum had commented that the US recruitment of Saudi Arabia and the UAE to join the air war were likewise unwelcome.
Item 6–The Kurds in Iraq are not the only ones being pressed by ISIS……..
Despite the indications that ISIS forces in Raqqa were moving underground in anticipation of US attacks, the group continues to remain on the offensive across Northern Syria, and is once again pressing Kurdish territory.
ISIS has reportedly taken 21 Kurdish villages in the past 24 hours and is once again mounting an offensive against the oft-threatened Kurdish border city of Ayn al-Arab.
I include this in the briefing because it involves Syria and Turkey and also may help to weaken Kurdish forces as they try to protect all Kurds….something that needs watching…
Item 7–France has joined the US in carrying out airstrikes against ISIS targets…….
Less than 24 hours after President François Hollande announced he had approved a request from the government in Baghdad for air support, at least two French Rafale planes attacked the insurgents’ positions.
A statement from Hollande’s office read: “This morning, at 9.40am, our Rafale aircraft carried out a first attack against a logistics centre of the terrorist organisation Daesh [Isis] in the north-east of Iraq. The target was hit and entirely destroyed. Other operations will be carried out in the days to come.”
That concludes today’s briefing……not much to report….that should change in the coming days and weeks as the plan flies into a full court press……please stay informed.
Turn the page.
I recall when I was in the military we were always hearing about the probes the Russians were sending into our airspace….I guess testing our response time in case it was needed in the event of a war with the US and her allies……but after the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War such “war games” were not needed any longer….but guess what, sports fans?
While you were worried about the NFL and its stellar reputation things were changing……..
Russian military pilots seem to be getting a little adventurous these days. A pair of US military jets intercepted six Russian aircraft near the coast of Alaska Wednesday evening, reports AP. The Russian pilots never entered US airspace, but instead remained in something called the Air Defense Identification Zone, which extends about 200 miles from the coast. Still, NORAD sent up two US jets “basically to let those aircraft know that we see them, and in case of a threat, to let them know we are there to protect our sovereign airspace,” says a spokesperson. The six Russian planes—two fighter jets, two long-range bombers, and two refueling tankers—eventually looped back toward Russia.
Hours later, Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian long-range bombers over the Beaufort Sea, near the Canadian coast but again in the international zone. While such incidents aren’t all that uncommon, one US official tells CNN that Moscow was likely expressing its displeasure about a visit by Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko to the US and Canada. Elsewhere, two Russian military aircraft entered Swedish air space without authorization, reports the BBC. Sweden’s foreign ministry called it a “serious violation” and has summoned the Russian ambassador to complain.
Yep, that is right Gertrude….the probes have returned. Russia is once again probing our airspace and our response time……why would they be doing that?…(he asked smilingly).
First, what is it about North Korea that would make a normal person think. “gee, I think I would like to visit”? I mean even a half brained conserv should know the horror stories coming out of the country. But yet you have people that get a tourist visa and jump a plane and go on a vacation to this authoritarian, brutal regime…..why?
Recently an American was arrested and tried as a spy in North Korea…….
North Korea today piled more accusations upon a 25-year-old American arrested there and sentenced to six years’ hard labor. The state-run Korean Central News Agency says Matthew Miller entered the country on a tourist visa from South Korea and deliberately got himself arrested by tearing up his visa in order to become famous, reports CNN. The North says Miller claimed to be seeking asylum because he had attempted and failed to collect secrets about the US government, reports Reuters. “He perpetrated the above-said acts in the hope of becoming a ‘world famous guy’ and the ‘second Snowden’ through intentional hooliganism,” says the KCNA, referring to Edward Snowden.
Pyongyang also thinks that Miller wanted to infiltrate the prison system to investigate human rights conditions and to try to negotiate the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae. Not much is known about Miller, who graduated from California’s Bakersfield High School in 2008. In an earlier, bizarre story, Reuters reported that he had been in South Korea for several months prior to traveling to the North “pretending to be an Englishman named ‘Preston Somerset.'” He had reportedly been trying to line up artists to adapt Alice in Wonderland in anime form.
Okay, let us be honest….there are two types of people that visit North Korea willingly…..morons and spies…..this guy sounds like the moron, at least to me…….
And now another American has decided that North Korea is the place to be………
The number of Americans in North Korean custody still stands at three after what appears to have been a failed—and incredibly dangerous—attempt by a US citizen to swim across a river border between North and South Korea. Officials in the South say the man was taken into their custody after a border patrol found him lying exhausted on the shores of the Han River, AFP reports. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency says the man told officials he wanted to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Last fall, a South Korean man was shot dead by South Korean soldiers while trying to swim to the North, reports the AP.
The man, believed to be in his late 20s or early 30s, is being interrogated by “relevant South Korean officials,” a defense ministry official tells CNN. In 1996, another American, 26-year-old Evan Hunziker, became the first US citizen arrested on spying charges by Pyongyang since the end of the Korean War after swimming drunk and naked to North Korea on a dare. His release was secured after three months by then-New Mexico Rep. Bill Richardson, but Hunziker committed suicide less than a month later. Over the weekend, US citizen Matthew Miller was sentenced to six years for entering North Korea illegally and “trying to commit an act of espionage.”
Someone please explain to me why any American, regardless of mental capacity, would want to go to North Korea for any reason?
Damn we are breeding some really stupid citizens…….must be the fluoride.
