We’ll Use Our B-52 Stratofortress with Precision?
From a discussion @BooMan’s fp story – When Bluster Meets Reality.
○ Candidate Ted Cruz vows to “carpet bomb” Islamic State into oblivion | Reuters – video |
Ted Cruz wants to ‘carpet bomb’ Islamic State, but with some limits | LA Times |
On the campaign trail, Cruz has said he wants to “carpet bomb” the Islamic militants and find out whether “sand can glow in the dark .” Asked about the idea during Tuesday night’s debate in Las Vegas, the Texas senator said the United States should use “overwhelming air power” against the militant group.
Carpet bombing means saturating an area with explosives.
Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchor moderating the debate, pushed Cruz for more details.
“Would you carpet bomb Raqqa, the ISIS capital, where there are a lot of civilians? Yes or no?” Blitzer asked, using another name for Islamic State.
Cruz said no.
“You would carpet bomb where ISIS is, not a city, but the location of the troops,” Cruz said. “You use air power directed — and you have embedded special forces to direction the air power. But the object isn’t to level a city. The object is to kill the ISIS terrorists.”
- ○ No, GOP, you can’t win by Carpet-bombing | Informed Comment |
○ In Ad, Cruz Makes Commander-in-Chief Pitch to Iowans
Btw, Obama and his team has been sitting at the Republican table for a few years wanting regime change. What a bs all-around.
Jihadists Already Control The Land Syria’s US-Educated Prime Minister Hitto Wants To Rule
[PM Ghassan Hitto resigns after Saudi putz to oust MB/Qatar influence in SNC (July 2013) – Oui](Business Insider) March 20, 2013 – Jihadists rebels now control large parts of the three provinces that make up northeastern Syria and are working to install the foundations for an Islamic state.
Earlier this month extremist rebels — mostly from large armed groups Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al Nusra — captured the provincial capital of Raqqa, Syria’s sixth largest city and the first to fall into rebel hands.
In February Nusra rebels have surrounded the provincial capital of of Deir al-Zor[now the oil capital of IS – pdf], and the 10,000-strong force already controls wheat silos, a textile factory, and oil fields across the province.
[Source my diary – here]
Infighting in SNC opposition groups ahead of Geneva-2 talks | Syria Comment – May 27, 2013 |
Appointment of New Members Reversed
The opposition talks in Turkey have ended in disappointment for many. A Reuters article reports:
A crisis in Syria’s opposition deepened when liberals were offered only token representation, undermining international efforts to lend the Islamist-dominated alliance greater support.
To the dismay of envoys of Western and Arab nations monitoring four days of opposition talks in Istanbul, the 60-member Syrian National Coalition thwarted a deal to admit a liberal bloc headed by opposition campaigner Michel Kilo.
- ○ Inside Syrian opposition’s talks in Turkey | Hassan Hassan blog – cached |
○ Syrian Turkmen Join Opposition Forces in Pursuit of a New Syrian Identity
○ How Saudi Arabia and Qatar are the Tortoise and the Hare of the Middle East | The Atlantic |
Today, Turkish president Erdogan and the US Congress want to declare the Al-Nusra Front “moderate.”
Last week, sitting at the negotiating table of US ally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA):
○ AQ linked terror group Ahrar al-Sham leaves Riyadh meeting … or did they?
My diary in 2013:
○ Perhaps You Have Noticed … A turning Point In Syria | May 26, 2013 |