let them go for it

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

[...] Edit--it probably makes sense to provide Kurdish forces with money and arms to repel ISIS. But I would not go beyond that and try to form a political alliance.

I hope they do not supply the Kurds with the german G36, because then we will have kurdish terrorists bombing Germany, because we gave them useless guns back then

[vienna]

This is one reason why I am a bit happy about the Saudis and the Iranians have it out Yemen and the US basically keeping our forces out of the fight. For too long the US has been the paid defense force for the Saudi royal family and they have done very little on a level that involves them directly. The Saudis send a very large number of it royal progeny to train at US military facilities, on US weapons and achieve a level of battle proficiency. But what happens when Saudi interests are threatened. The US government takes it upon itself to send our troops and our weapons to brace up the Saudis and to die for Saudi oil. I say this time we let the Saudis fight for their own interests and lives; and, if they take down the Iranians in the process, more the better...


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