Trumps Sec. of State nominee has a plan to defeat ISIS, and its not very good

[applegrove]

by Justin Salhani at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-sec-of-state-has-a-plan-to-defeat-isis-and-it-s-not-very-good-2ea957567251#.fto1b3tg5

"SNIP...........


He also laid out a very basic plan in defeating ISIS.

“In the case of the most immediate threat of ISIS — can we construct a renewed coalition using the forces that are already there, including the Syrian Kurds, which have been our greatest allies,” Tillerson told the panel. “We recommit to the Syrian Kurds that we intend to continue to support you with the capability to continue the advance on [the capital of ISIS’ so called caliphate] Raqqa and then build coalition forces that can contain ISIS if it attempts to move into this other part of the country. And eliminate them from Syria.”

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There’s one major issue with Tillerson’s plan. Forming a coalition with the Kurds will anger Turkey, a close U.S. ally and a major military contributor to NATO.

“It is out of the question for us to take part in an operation in which the PYD/YPG are present,” Ibrahim Kalin, the spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said during an interview on a state run news channel.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. Oh, those pesky facts, can't we suspend them for four years.

[marybourg]

2. He has a little plan. He has a little plan

Tra la la la la. (with apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan)

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. "Kurds? I meant Furds, silly me. Yeah that's the ticket...... No who wants to buy some oil?" nt

[Caliman73]

4. Wow. That is obvious, and stupid

Does that fool not understand that we have been supplying the Syrian Kurds with weapons, training, and air support (in the name of the no fly zone) for some time? We have not been able to do it formally because of the chance of alienating Turkey, a NATO ally.

Trump and his people are dumber than a bag of hammers.

[applegrove]

5. Canada has been training them.

[Caliman73]

8. With our support

We cannot have direct ties because of Turkey, but we are knee deep in what both the Peshmerga in Iraq and the Syrian Kurds are doing.

[applegrove]

9. Oh right. It is in Iraq Canada is supporting the Kurdish Peshmerga. Mosul.

I didn't know there was a difference.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harjit-sajjan-supporting-troops-iraq-1.3809333

[MrScorpio]

6. He obliviously hasn't thought this through

It's clearly a sign of two dimensional thinking.

FDT.

[lpbk2713]

7. Send Trump over there to give speeches.

That ought to bore them to death.