The Dawn Of Freedom Brigades

For a week now, we've been getting nonstop scare stories about Islamic State's menacing advance on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani And as far as it goes, the stories are true: Islamic State (IS) did come within 14 km of Kobani, attacking from the South, West, and East, before US air strikes and reinforcements from the Turkish-Kurdish PKK militia stopped them. I have made it clear that America will not base our entire foreign policy on reacting to terrorism. Rather, we have waged a focused campaign against al Qaeda and its associated forces - taking out their leaders, and denying them the safe-havens they rely upon. At the same time, we have reaffirmed that the United kobani States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace. Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them - there is only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country. If they were hoping for a moment's quiet reflection before they enter the mayhem of the general assembly chamber they would have been disappointed: even the restrooms have been turned into globalised megaphones. Fresh rolls of lavatory paper have been loaded especially for the occasion kobani stamped with the words: Open defecation”. If that's not alarming enough, the next sheet of paper ensures a pleasant, lyrical start to the day with the words: A child dies every 2.5 minutes from diarrhoeal diseases” and 1 billion people globally do not have any access to a toilet”. It seems, john, this is another instance of you taking the words of very interested parties at face value. Another irresponsible, counterfactual title, much like your recent coverage of Maliki's coup in Iraq. You need to learn kobani,kobane,ypg to keep your opinion and speculation separate from your reporting - apparently, to you there's little difference. not the source itself. The idea that Kobani is an example of "kurdish women beating ISIS" is just ridiculous. A handful of very wealthy criminal industrialist families started all this shit well over a hundred years ago when they started manipulating the Middle Eastern region in order to control the then massive oil reserves scattered throughout the region. Many of the very wealthy industrialist families also happened to be Zionists...or at least, they pretended to be Zionists in order to get a foothold on land that never belonged to them in the first place and never will. So the US is, once again, completely incoherent on who we're fighting, who we're allied with, and what we're doing in the region. More importantly, a victory for IS would give the group prestige among the dozens of groups lined up in the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad. It would also secure the terror organization's flow of oil to a lucrative market - its link to the outside world via Turkey, as I reported last week. Since, Turkey is a huge US ally in the region, and unrest in Turkey could impinge on the stability of Europe as well as further destabilizing the Middle East, that's another reason why the U.S. doesn't want an independent Kurdish state. We don't want to piss off the Turks and we don't want to potentially destabilize the most democratic and stable country in the region. And Egypt is not in NATO, nor is it a close ally militarily. We support them militarily to keep the peace with Israel. Yes, the Iraqi Kurds have been allied with the US. But you cannot see them as anything else other than US stooges, paid to provide oil. That's a shame... there's more to it than that. I can't expect kobani you to understand though because it's not your fight, and your concern is US politics. of helping the Kurds defeat anyone by opening the border, so there isn't a political solution right there. Since mid-September, the militant onslaught has forced some 200,000 people to flee Kobani and surrounding villages, and activists say more than 400 people have been killed in the fighting. It has also brought the violence of Syria's civil war to Turkey's doorstep. Isis was said to have reinforced fighters who are battling Kurdish forces for control of the town on Kobani close to the Turkish border.