It wasn't a surprise that Turkey was upset with the Trump Administration's decision to arm the Syrian Kurdish rebels. What they may not have anticipated is just how upset Turkey is.
We returned to bombing Iranian-backed militias in Syria today.
The Battle of Mosul has been going on for seven months now - longer than Stalingrad.
More than 90% of Mosul has been liberated from ISIS, leaving an area of just 9 square-kilometers. The fight for the last 10% promises to be catastrophically awful.
It wasn't a proud moment for America.
Buried deep in a recent L.A. Times news article was this gem.
A recent series of events is unfolding whereby, on a much smaller scale, ISIS is emulating U.S. foreign policy by indiscriminately attacking different western countries as well as Muslim-majority countries. They, like the U.S., are seeking to make as many enemies as possible, much more efficiently and a heckuva lot cheaper than we do it.
Even the most ardent Trump-haters have to admit that DJT has his work cut out for him, in part thanks to the die-hard Trump-haters. One of his campaign promises was to wipe-out ISIS. Many campaign promises were made but two of the most important were to end ISIS and start no more new wars--perhaps ending old one's inspired by Obama-Klinton-Soros.
Earlier this week a U.S. airstrike in Mosul slaughtered over 200 innocent civilians.
Initially the Pentagon denied being responsible.
230 innocent civilians were killed in Mosul in a single night from U.S. bombs. The American media barely noticed.
It's not like we were responsible. Those hundreds of dead women and children were “human shields” for ISIS snipers, so it was their fault.
I don't want to post this article from Rudaw, especially the slideshow of photographs, but we're grownups, right? We need to face the reality of our foreign policy.
http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/180320171
Mosul residents flee the city with dead bodies of loved ones
By Rudaw 18/3/2017
