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.
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.
Yes, well, as Clausewitz said, war is "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means," i.e. War is merely politics conducted through the use of force. So yes, all the problems with war are political problems. Right now, Turkey is the political problem as well as ISIS. The other half of Clausewitz dialectic is pertinent here: War is merely a duel on a larger scale. And you can't fight a duel without a weapon.
Turkey does not recognise minorities. The governments have always oppressed the Kurds. They were not allowed to have their culture, no schools in their language, and so on. The Kurds always wanted some autonomy but 
Britain's former ambassador to the US, Christopher Meyer, has criticised Labour's apparent insistence on UN security council backing for air strikes in Syria. Meyer accused Labour of subcontracting its policy to China 
But that's not so simple. They would probably need to fly them out of Incirlik in Turkey and of course the Turks are 'conflicted'. Also they'd need to have robust search and rescue capability right across the border 
But apparently the Kurdish women are aware that under the rule of groups like ISIS (and the less extremist but still very very extreme groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda) they will have no choices about their own lives. She probably made a calculated decision to save those whom she commanded, friends whom she loved and cherished, by sacrificing her life to take out a dangerous ISIS unit that had been killing many.
Further complicating the issue, the U.S. said it has begun talking directly to the Kurdish fighters' political wing in Kobani — a diplomatic move that is likely to anger Turkey. The U.S. isn't sure why IS is fighting so hard for control of Kobani, a city with few resources and far removed from any capital. But like the U.S. with Kobani, a loss to a ragtag group of Kurdish fighters would be a propaganda loss for IS.
On Syria he came close to ruling out Labour backing for air strikes. The situation in Syria is somewhat different,” he said. Miliband pointed out that unlike Iraq, Syria is not asking for intervention. He said he would be calling for a UN resolution on air strikes in Syria. Air strikes alone will not defeat Isis,” Miliband said. We're doing some maintenance right now. You can still read comments, but please come back later to add your own.
I wonder if someone promised them they would go to some women's heaven where they would not have to be one of some Muslim man's forty virgins, if they did this? One man's Heaven is another woman's Hell. I believe that is a large 
The brief letter did not mention the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, which rested on erroneous claims of weapons of mass destruction and arguably contributed to its current instability, but stresses instead the country's right to self-defence in the face of this new threat. Just as in Washington, the president has ducked the trickier task of winning a resolution for war in favour of a more palatable vote to contain the Islamic State through indirect means.
America is not the World's Police. That is the thought and/or wish of the conservative mindset. Let NATO handle it. We cannot afford to fight their Wars. The huge War for Profit Machine that Bush built is still War Mongering. 
Much of the daily fighting in Kobani is caught on camera, where TV crews and photographers on the Turkish side of the border have captivated the world's attention with searing pictures of refugees, black plumes of smoke from explosions, and the sounds of firefights on the city's streets. In video after video, refugees just across the border can be seen and heard cheering as U.S. airstrikes pound the extremists.
The Kurdish warrior-king Saladin put an end to the Crusades by capturing an entire army of Crusaders. He freed all of them and guaranteed future safe passage to any who wanted to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem-as long as they came in peace. If any wished to make war, he said, thy would be slaughtered. The Crusaders honored the agreement. There is a monument to Saladin in Westminster Cathedral.
Ten Iraqi peshmerga fighters entered a northern Syrian border town, crossing over from Turkey on Thursday, the first from among a group of 150 Kurdish troops on their way into the embattled Kobani, activists said. The development followed heavy overnight clashes as Islamic State fighters unsuccessfully tried to capture 
If your diary covers an election or elected official, use election tags, which are generally the state abbreviation followed by the office. CA-01 is the first district House seat. CA-Sen covers both senate races. NY-GOV covers the New York governor's race. Tags do not compound: that is, "education reform" is a completely different tag from "education". A tag like "reform" alone is probably not meaningful.
At the close of the Labour party conference in Manchester, Miliband had convened an emergency meeting of Labour's cabinet to endorse military action in Iraq so providing Cameron the assurance he needed that he will win 
Since President Barack Obama is adamant that American troops will not join the fight on the ground, the U.S. has been working to help arm, equip and revamp training programs for national and Kurdish Peshmerga security forces in Iraq 
Using bomber, fighter and remotely piloted aircraft, U.S. forces conducted five airstrikes south of Kobani in Syria yesterday and today, damaging an ISIL training camp and destroying an ISIL support building and two ISIL vehicles. The strikes also hit a small ISIL unit and a large ISIL unit, officials said. It's a good, well paved two lane road, good for heavy trucks, semi's, even tank transporters.
Finally this resolution recognizes that there is no military solution to the problem of misguided individuals seeking to join terrorist organizations. The US ambassador to the UN says the opening business” included passage 
But the difference here is the push by women for equality within the context of a socio-economic and political model that emphasizes horizontal human relations. This is a wonderful development, and it will take time 
The mythologies that support these patterns are varied from society to society but they all sort of militate in the same direction, which is individual survival. Maybe that's one of the reasons why Islamic fundamentalists hate song 
They are being opposed by just 2,000 Kurdish fighters with the YPG, the armed wing of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), without access to any heavy weaponry and short on ammunition. To put this into perspective,