US Airdrops Arms to ISIL

[grahamhgreen]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/21/isis-video-america-s-air-dropped-weapons-now-in-our-hands.html




On accident, I'm sure. And why are they allowed to have a Twitter account that serves as a 'media arm'?????

"An ISIS-associated YouTube account posted a new video online Tuesday entitled, “Weapons and munitions dropped by American planes and landed in the areas controlled by the Islamic State in Kobani.” The video was also posted on the Twitter account of “a3maq news,” which acts as an unofficial media arm of ISIS. The outfit has previously posted videos of ISIS fighters firing American made Howitzer cannons and seizing marijuana fields in Syria.

ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq. ISIS videos have showed its fighters driving U.S. tanks, MRAPs, Humvees. There are unconfirmed reports ISIS has stolen three fighter planes from Iraqi bases it conquered.

The authenticity of this latest video could not be independently confirmed, but the ISIS fighters in the video are in possession of a rich bounty of American hand grenades, rounds for small rockets, and other supplies that they will surely turn around and use on the Kurdish forces they are fighting in and around the Turkish border city."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. FUBAR....as usual.

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. your headline is bullshit...and these things happen

Air drops are not an exact science....but don't let that ruin your hair on fire fauxrage against President Obama du jour...

[Fred Sanders]

3. The blaming Obama game is tiresome, did he persnally pilot the transport plane and pick the spot?

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Yep. He also pulled the drop handle. Why do you ask?

[VanillaRhapsody]

9. the jump on any meme that crticizes Obama brigade

Has arrived

[morningfog]

4. How is the headline bullshit?

[Fred Sanders]

7. Arms dropped accidently? Arms intended for Kurds intercepted by ISIL? Anything would be better.

[bluesbassman]

5. Your defense of President Obama is admirable, but where exactly in the OP was PBO blamed for this?

[grahamhgreen]

8. No, the new war is BS, IMHO.

[PAProgressive28]

10. Who mentioned Obama?

And "these things happen." Yeah. Let's just shrug it off. Maybe we need to stop arming rebels and these things will not just happen.

[hifiguy]

11. Situation Normal

All Fucked Up.

As fucked up as a left-handed football bat.

[LanternWaste]

12. We dropped medical supplies, ammunition and cold-weather clothing on the Nazis in the winter of 1944

We also dropped medical supplies, ammunition and cold-weather clothing on the Nazis in the winter of 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge. "On accident. I'm sure"

(insert distinction without a difference here to better validate bias)

[grahamhgreen]

14. The whole things an accident. We accidentally funded bin Laden. We accidentally invaded Iraq. We

Sold WMD's to Hussein. We make mistakes. Cmon!

[gratuitous]

13. Well, don't that just beat all?

We're once again trying to micromanage things thousands of miles away without a clear idea of what we're doing, who we're doing it for, and a bunch of people with a reputation for swiping arms away from their intended recipients has . . . swiped the arms away from their intended recipients! I'm so surprised, you could knock me over with a feather.

The only thing our country believes in anymore is violence. The obvious solution is to flood the area with even more arms and weaponry, in hopes that some of them will fall into the right hands - whoever that is. If this was a pool hall, we'd call it the spray and pray method of shooting pool. As long as the arms manufacturers get paid for their wares, this is all just fine with our leaders and the people who elect them. No sense doing anything else, as our brilliant strategy is clearly working precisely as intended.

[flamingdem]

15. So quick you are to fall for Isis propaganda?

Not a bfd if some stuff gets in their hands. Isis is throwing everything at the Kurds an losing.

Estimates are 1500 or so Isis x'd out. The story here is how hard the Kurds fight with small arms and how the US isn't listening to Turkey anymore.