JimofPennsylvan
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The White House is missing an opportunity to turn the tide in the military conflict against ISIL in not getting more Kurdish fighters to Kobani in Northern Syria. The White House is making a big mistake in downplaying this battle saying that if ISIL forces defeat Kurdish forces defending this town it is no big deal the important battles are yet to come when the coalition trains a moderate Syrian Army and their sent against ISIL that is when the world will see the roll back and defeat of ISIL. It is not being suggested that U.S. combat troops be sent in to rescue this town President Obama has said no U.S. combat troops in this conflict and he is absolutely right to have this as an inviolate condition for this conflict. But the reality is that these Kurdish fighters defending this town will lose unless a fighting force comes to their rescue. The perplexing and infuriating thing is that the coalition has forces that will rescue this town Kurdish fighters in Northeast Syria, a Kurdish controlled area of Syria; the problem is that the Turkish government will not allow these Syria Kurds a passageway through Turkey to send fighters and supplies to the besieged town of Kobani.
The White House needs to do two things immediately at the highest diplomatic levels between the American government and the Turkish government it needs to be made clear to the Turkish government that their lack of cooperation here in not granting this passage is intolerable America won't stand for it this ISIL group is evil and is a threat to our country and western civilization and must be completely eradicated quickly and Turkey's obstructionism aids and abetts this threat to America's security and won't be forgotten. Secondly, when one boils down the problem here it is really a simple problem the coalition has Kurdish fighting units in Northeastern Syria and maybe some in Northwestern Iraq and Norheastern Iraq that are willing to rescue this Kurdish town In Northcentral Syria; why not use squadrons of U.S. helicopters to ferry these units to the town of Kobani. America must have squadrons of helicopters in Kuwait for it is well publicized America has a significant number of combat forces there, the Pentagon should propose leap frogging these squadrons across Iraq to the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Syria picking up these units and dropping them off near Kobani and using coalition air power to walk them into Kobani just like the coalition did to rescue the Mosul dam; the government of Iraq should not object because ISIL soldiers killed at Kobani are ISIL soldiers the Iraqi Army won't have to fight in central Iraq.
NATO leaders have to talk some sense to Turkey government leaders, their demands on the U.S. for this conflict are from left field. The American president cannot establish a no fly zone over Syria for he does not have legal authority to enter into military conflict with the armed forces of Syria which such would entail and he won't get such legal authority from Congress for the American people are war weary they support the fight against ISIL because ISIL threatens America and western civilization, Assad poses no such threat. Ankara's fear of helping Kurdish military forces prevail here that it will ultimately facilitate the Kurdish people in Syria, Iraq and Turkey uniting and forming their own country and in the process taking a huge portion of Turkish territory with this formation is very unsophisticated and unwise thinking. The best thing that the Turkish government can do to protect the Turkish people against this sovereignty threat is see the countries of Syria and Iraq succeed certainly a huge and real threat to this success is the existence of ISIL meaning if Turkey helps the Kurds defeat ISIL at Kobani they move the coalition's effort forward in wiping out ISIL altogether. Both Iraq and Syria but especially Iraq have enormous wealth if political and security stability can be obtained in these countries their people including the Kurds will have a good life there will not be this large impetus or drive to secede and form the country of Kurdistan.
The White House is wrong that Kobani doesn't matter in the ISIL conflict because they are thinking what the town means from a military geography standpoint and not from a military symbolic and momentum standpoint. After all the coalition military efforts against ISIL over the last two months ISIL leaders have decided to pour a lot of their military resources into the offensive for Kobani because of the propaganda and morale value for their fighters and their supporters if they win; it is like they took the best blow the evil America and its western allies could inflict upon them and it did not stop them ISIL can beat America and its allies! From America and the coalition's standpoint the prudent view is that if they can bring about the defeat of ISIL at Kobani they will have blocked the momentum of ISIL in Syria they will have stopped this blitzkrieg phenomenon that ISIL heretofore has had as their impressive reputation quality. Momentum and morale is crucially important in military campaigns, take for instance America's Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was a fight over a run of the mill farm town a town that had no military geographic significance at all but the battle was the decisive battle of the war because it was a test of will's between the Confederate leadership and the Union leadership and the Union leadership won thereby emasculating the stature of the Confederate military leadership and then it was only a matter of time before the war was over! Kobani is shaping up to be an opportunity for the White House to turn it into a Gettysburg in this military conflict against ISIL!
The White House needs to do two things immediately at the highest diplomatic levels between the American government and the Turkish government it needs to be made clear to the Turkish government that their lack of cooperation here in not granting this passage is intolerable America won't stand for it this ISIL group is evil and is a threat to our country and western civilization and must be completely eradicated quickly and Turkey's obstructionism aids and abetts this threat to America's security and won't be forgotten. Secondly, when one boils down the problem here it is really a simple problem the coalition has Kurdish fighting units in Northeastern Syria and maybe some in Northwestern Iraq and Norheastern Iraq that are willing to rescue this Kurdish town In Northcentral Syria; why not use squadrons of U.S. helicopters to ferry these units to the town of Kobani. America must have squadrons of helicopters in Kuwait for it is well publicized America has a significant number of combat forces there, the Pentagon should propose leap frogging these squadrons across Iraq to the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Syria picking up these units and dropping them off near Kobani and using coalition air power to walk them into Kobani just like the coalition did to rescue the Mosul dam; the government of Iraq should not object because ISIL soldiers killed at Kobani are ISIL soldiers the Iraqi Army won't have to fight in central Iraq.
NATO leaders have to talk some sense to Turkey government leaders, their demands on the U.S. for this conflict are from left field. The American president cannot establish a no fly zone over Syria for he does not have legal authority to enter into military conflict with the armed forces of Syria which such would entail and he won't get such legal authority from Congress for the American people are war weary they support the fight against ISIL because ISIL threatens America and western civilization, Assad poses no such threat. Ankara's fear of helping Kurdish military forces prevail here that it will ultimately facilitate the Kurdish people in Syria, Iraq and Turkey uniting and forming their own country and in the process taking a huge portion of Turkish territory with this formation is very unsophisticated and unwise thinking. The best thing that the Turkish government can do to protect the Turkish people against this sovereignty threat is see the countries of Syria and Iraq succeed certainly a huge and real threat to this success is the existence of ISIL meaning if Turkey helps the Kurds defeat ISIL at Kobani they move the coalition's effort forward in wiping out ISIL altogether. Both Iraq and Syria but especially Iraq have enormous wealth if political and security stability can be obtained in these countries their people including the Kurds will have a good life there will not be this large impetus or drive to secede and form the country of Kurdistan.
The White House is wrong that Kobani doesn't matter in the ISIL conflict because they are thinking what the town means from a military geography standpoint and not from a military symbolic and momentum standpoint. After all the coalition military efforts against ISIL over the last two months ISIL leaders have decided to pour a lot of their military resources into the offensive for Kobani because of the propaganda and morale value for their fighters and their supporters if they win; it is like they took the best blow the evil America and its western allies could inflict upon them and it did not stop them ISIL can beat America and its allies! From America and the coalition's standpoint the prudent view is that if they can bring about the defeat of ISIL at Kobani they will have blocked the momentum of ISIL in Syria they will have stopped this blitzkrieg phenomenon that ISIL heretofore has had as their impressive reputation quality. Momentum and morale is crucially important in military campaigns, take for instance America's Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was a fight over a run of the mill farm town a town that had no military geographic significance at all but the battle was the decisive battle of the war because it was a test of will's between the Confederate leadership and the Union leadership and the Union leadership won thereby emasculating the stature of the Confederate military leadership and then it was only a matter of time before the war was over! Kobani is shaping up to be an opportunity for the White House to turn it into a Gettysburg in this military conflict against ISIL!
