Turks OK use of bases…oh…wait…nope
This morning, Andy sent us a link to the news that Turkey finally gave us permission to use our own bases there to launch attacks against ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State targets in Iraq and mostly Syria.
U.S. officials confirmed Saturday that Ankara had agreed to train Syrian moderate forces on Turkish soil. A Turkish government official said Sunday that Turkey put the number at 4,000 opposition fighters and said they would be screened by Turkish intelligence.
Also Sunday, officials confirmed that Turkey agreed to let U.S. and coalition fighter aircraft launch operations against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria from Turkish bases, including Incirlik Air Base in the south. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who has been traveling in South America, has said the U.S. wanted access to the Turkish bases.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss private talks between the Americans and Turks.
Maybe they were anonymous because they weren’t quite telling the truth.
A Turkish official says there is no new agreement with the United States on using an air base in southern Turkey for operations against the militant group ISIS.
Turkey and the United States are still negotiating the use of the Incirlik air base as well as Turkish demands for the creation of a no-fly zone and a safe haven for refugees, the government official told the Associated Press on Monday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the issue publicly.
Well, an anonymous source told me that everyone is FOS. The Turks need to get off their high horse and start spending some of the money that we’ve been giving them since the end of World War II and especially the money that we’ve been giving them to protect themselves since the Syrian Civil War began. And the Associated Press needs to start doing some of that journalism stuff and quit using anonymous sources to create news stories where none exist.
And why TF is Hagel in South America? It’s like the only continent on the planet where nothing much is happening.
Category: Terror War
Read elsewhere that Hagel (what a puke) will give an announcement that our armed forces will be used to fight global warming. That’s right! maybe he is in SA doing recon and research.
Really worry about all on active duty/reserves these days.
ohio…Please tell me you’re shitting me! Armed forces to fight…global warming? What the hell is going on? Sounds like Hagel has given into John Kerry’s view that he considers it his “biblical duty” to fight global warming, especially for the Arab nations. What are they going to do? Deploy somewhere and then, get out and push their vehicles to save on the warming and ozone depletion? Another asinine program for using troops, money and time for…nothing. I wonder if they’ll need a new camo pattern for the fight against global warming? Someone should bring that up. I mean it could get serious out there taking the temperatures of the ground, trees, plants and then of course, there’s the thermometers up the monkey’s and elephant’s asses. That mission’s gonna take some planning.
Just read this this morning:
http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20141013/NEWS05/310130028
Forgot. http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/220536-pentagon-to-unveil-major-report-on-climate#.VDvWHiCP7yU.twitter
Comments are really funny.
Chuck’s in South America because there’s no ebola there. Or enterovius D68, either.
F**k ’em all. We leave with our troops, our planes, our ships, all our weapons. Now. And our foreign aid too. Now. You don’t help us, we don’t help you. Period. End of statement. No ands, ifs, buts, or conditions. We’re outta there. Let them duke it out between themselves without our help. The politics over there are more tangled then a plate of pasta.
The only ones I would consider helping would be the Kurds. Especially if it involved helping them set up their own seperate country out of Iraq and Turkey.
You forgot the last step—wait for major ISIS terrorist attack after they conquer the whole region and turn their eyes west.
I have never understood why we continue to provide millions of dollars of foreign aide to countries who treat us with such contemp. You don’t play nice, we don’t play nice. Instead of giving you aide, we will build another aircraft carrier to come and bomb you into the stone age if necessary – live with it.
And why TF is Hagel in South America? It’s like the only continent on the planet where nothing much is happening.
Maybe he’s doing a follow-up on that Secret Service prostitution debacle, sort of a personal investigation into those nefarious activities….
I had wondered the same …
I don’t get what this whole big issue thing is with TURKISH Pot Pies???
I can’t find them anywhere at any store and everyone says their a good cold weather lunch or dinner.
You know if I…uhm wait a minute, someones talking to me. Yea…yea…uhm huh, OH…I think I gotcha now.
Sorry folks, it was TURKEY Pot Pies. Not…well…Never mind. Continue on with the thread.