Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Laugh or Cry?

The Islamic State has released a new video in which it brags that it recovered weapons and supplies that the U.S. military intended to deliver to Kurdish fighters, who are locked in a fight with the militants over control of the Syrian border town of Kobane.

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The incident highlights the difficulty in making sure all airdrops are accurate, even with GPS-guided parachutes that the Air Force commonly uses. Airdrops of food and water to religious minorities trapped on mountain cliffs in northern Iraq in August hit the mark about 80 percent of the time, Pentagon officials said at the time.

  WaPo
So, with an 80% success rate, we think it’s a good idea to drop weapons. Brilliant.  Arm everyone.

Turkey, of course, is none too happy about this development.  And we were already having trouble keeping Turkey happy in our new "coalition".

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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