US-led coalition launches 39 air strikes against Isis forces in Syria and Iraq

[uhnope]

Source: Guardian UK

US forces and their allies staged 39 air strikes on Islamic State (Isis) forces in Iraq and Syria on Thursday and Friday, the Combined Joint Task Force said.

Fighters, bombers and remotely controlled aircraft hit 19 targets in Syria while 20 strikes were carried out in Iraq, a statement said. The statement was updated, after a previous release said 31 strikes had been carried out on Friday.

The strikes in Syria were concentrated on an area near the city of Kobani and destroyed buildings, a staging area and several fighting positions. Two large Isis units and four tactical units also were hit. Two air strikes near Al Hasakah and one near Ar Raqqah also caused damage.

In Iraq, air strikes hit near Al Asad, Sinjar, Mosul, Al Qaim, Baiji, Kirkuk and Tal Afar, destroying or damaging a rocket system, vehicles, tactical units and fighting positions, the statement said.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/26/us-led-coalition-air-strikes-isis-syria-iraq

[cosmicone]

1. Go go go ... kill every last one of them ... n/t

[True Blue Door]

2. Anyone who marches under the banner of such murdering bigots

is determined to either kill or die, so let it be the latter. ISIS is just "suicide by cop" on a grand scale.

[cosmicone]

4. Ohhh poor little misunderstood ISIS

... they should be conquered with love .. send them psychoanalysts, cookies, chocolates and toys!!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[True Blue Door]

5. Umm...you might want a Reading Comprehension Check on your response.

Doesn't really reflect what's being responded to.

[LincolnsLeftHand]

3. ISIS

Needs to be eradicated. This group beheads innocents and tries to justify the rape of children.

[Amonester]

6. "It ain’t half cold here mum. My iPod has packed up. All I do is the washing-up."

Their iPods don't work over there...

Some of the messages sent home to France by disgruntled Isis volunteers sound like letters from homesick school-children. A number of young French men and women fighting or working for Isis in Iraq and Syria have appealed to relatives and lawyers to help them to come home.

A selection of their messages, leaked to the new:spaper Le Figaro, contrast bizarrely with the image of implacable and hard-hearted jihad peddled by terror websites. “I’m fed up to the back teeth. My iPod no longer works out here. I have got to come home,” said a message from a French fighter in Syria.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jihad-isnt-all-its-cracked-up-to-be-say-disgruntled-isis-recruits-9896629.html

[JohnnyRingo]

7. They make it difficult to feel sorry for them.

If the news releases are accurate, they're a disease that needs attention.

I sometimes don't understand why we have to be the ones to respond though. The Iraqis showed us just how helpless they are against people they don't want in their country. We lost 5,000 soldiers to a people the media said was unable to take back their own country from one dictator.

Perhaps the people of Iraq at least, are almost equally torn between a civil secular govt that gets things done and purpose driven extremists like ISIS. If that's the case, there's little hope for progress soon, no matter how many drones we launch.

[freshwest]

8. The coverge of this conflict is eerily reminiscent of old WW2 movie reels in theaters.

Battles far away with uncertain outcomes, trickling in. Not the kind of cheerleading that was in place then, but the same speed.

And people were patient and waited to hear the news on the fireside chats on radio and went to movies to make them feel as the world would eventually be free of war. They were not even immediately informed of the deaths of loved one, no matter how much effort was put in to do that for them.

Especially the truly horrific war that they were in, which few seem to be able to comprehend anymore. The media has since taught Americans to have short attention spans, no goals and to expect immediate results. As if world history is changed in one news cycle.

So I don't quite know what to think when I see these stories. It's all so very disorganized to the modern way of processing information, that it can easily be put out of mind. But it's an ongoing thing.

Still grateful we have Obama and not McCain. We'd be carpetbombing Iran if he were in office. Let's see if the GOP does what they said they would, declare a war in 2016.

Of course, they'll wait to get their marching order from the Koch brothers. There have been signs he is for it, just behind the scenes when the GOP go to pay homage to them at their meetings. Cruz, Perry, Walker, Scott, Boehner, Paul and others have vowed their fealty to these fascists.

But I want these people raping girls and killing anyone who doesn't toe the line on their religion to just go away, simply go away, dammit. But the world doesn't work that way.