Consolidated Syria Conflict Thread

[Gusington]

We could always go back to prop planes and piston fighters.

[undercovergeek]

how many you got?

[Staggerwing]

We could always go back to prop planes and piston fighters.

how many you got?

Gus can't be too far from Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome so he can send the Red Baron after IS-Hole.

[OJsDad]

how many you got?

More than they have Tornados 

[undercovergeek]

I hate to join in with knee jerk, populist opinion but if the new beheading video really is of a Russian and the killer really does taunt Putin, I hope it has the desired effect

Of all the western leaders involved I feel he is the only one to have the balls to say 'fk it' and turn the place into molten glass, like him or loathe him

[bayonetbrant]

say 'fk it' and turn the place into molten glass

that's what these guys want - they're trying to bring about the "end times"

[undercovergeek]

im happy with that, you and i can sip cocktails and there will be tourist flights out to the shiny glass lake of ISIS where they used to be - theyll all be martyrs but theres one good thing about martyrs

[Gusington]

You guys would love the Rhinebeck Aerodrome. Hell even Putin would love it.

[pawelj]

I hate to join in with knee jerk, populist opinion but if the new beheading video really is of a Russian and the killer really does taunt Putin, I hope it has the desired effect

Of all the western leaders involved I feel he is the only one to have the balls to say 'fk it' and turn the place into molten glass, like him or loathe him

He is an anti-Western leader, so put me down in the loathing category. And he is more of a problem than ISIS.

[eyebiter]

Turkish tanks invade Iraq during a "training mission"

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/05/iraq-orders-turkey-to-immediately-withdraw-troops-sent-across-border

"The Iraqi authorities call on Turkey to ... immediately withdraw from Iraqi territory," the statement said.

"We have confirmation that Turkish forces, numbering about one armoured regiment with a number of tanks and artillery, entered Iraqi territory ... allegedly to train Iraqi groups, without a request or authorisation from Iraqi federal authorities," it said."

[Bison]

Well this is quite interesting.  I hadn't seen anything about it in the US media yet, which I guess isn't too surprising.

[Gusington]

Wow. Have the Turks officially gone nuts?

[LongBlade]

Wow. Have the Turks officially gone nuts?

The Iraqis haven't been able to demonstrate military cohesion - let alone competence - since the US withdrew. Turks are recognizing the new reality and getting there firstest with the mostest.

[Gusington]

To do what? Smack around the Kurds more? And risk a wider war more than they already have? They should be standing down, not stepping it up.

[JasonPratt]

Hey, now, if ISIS can create a Caliphate while thumbing their noses at Russia and the West, the heirs to the Ottomans need to get it in gear!