Smoke and flames rise over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October, 2014. Credit: REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
What The Failure Of ISIS To Take Kobani Means -- Mark Thompson, Time
The Kurdish struggle to hold on to Syrian border town isn't all good news
Coming back after two weeks away, it’s surprising that the Syrian town of Kobani hasn’t fallen to the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria. Pentagon officials were predicting earlier this month that ISIS fighters would overrun the town, near the Turkish border, by mid-October, followed by widespread slaughters among the conquered population.
That hasn’t happened. And while that’s obviously good news in the short term for the city’s 200,000 largely-Kurdish residents, it’s tougher to handicap what it means for the long-term U.S.-led effort to “degrade and destroy” ISIS.
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My Comment: Win the battles .... but lose the war. It looks like the U.S. is repeating history.
2 comments:
I need to disagree with this TIME article. I see this one as complaining for a tactic/plan/strategy by those who are lack on the knowladge or experiance on how things work on the ground. Sure they are the ones who cover a lot of happening, but just by doing something not mean that they know what they talking about. Just a side note that, but a few months ago there were some articles about how to realy call IS, and TIME just came up with I think is the worst one, called ISIGS.
The US strategy in Syria and Iraq working as it's intended, and luckly military actions - beside many other things - work even when some does not understand it. Does US airstrikes show the lack of coordination? Yeah, for some it's show this, but for example me this is far the most organised airsitrike operation from the past 10 years by US. And I disagree with the repeating the same bad strategy again and again, because it's not being repeated, this one just seems similar, but deeply it's very different. This strategy has a goal, it's make sence and working as it intended to and which I'm sure even if just partly but archive what it made for. The battle for Kobani is going fine, and even the loose there would be fine, it's already served what for it was created and used. No need to be afraid my friends, things are just getting better and better in this part of Earth.
Oh forgot to say that I'm mlacix from earlier but with just another account.
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