BREAKING VIDEO for the BOG from an entry posted to the White House Blog:

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4. More about Kurdistan and the women fighters there:

Women fighters in kurdistan 2013 (documentary)

Akar Araz - Aug 20, 2013

Women fighters in kurdistan!!! Peshmerge and Gerilla Kurdish Security & Forces! is kurdistan safe?

This seems sounds more like an infomerical, not a documentary. America is *really* involved with the Kurds and yes, there is oil and gas there, and they've become quite prosperous and modern.

I didn't know what it was like as during the IW I only saw video and stories of people in the countryside. I do know that western companies made contracts and helped them grow their economy.

What they really want, is their own country. This is making my head hurt. BOGers, this is for you.

I'm posting this here since Kurdistan is a big part of what Obama is doing as they were unable to repell ISIS and lost Irbil where many Americans are. I didn't realize what ISIS has their hands on now.

This video mentions women and are threads today about the women:

As ISIS Advances, Kurdish Female Fighters Take a Stand

In early 2013, Ruwayda, the commander of the first all-female brigade of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (or PYD), oversaw 53 fighters, working with the Free Syrian Army to stop Assad's forces from entering Kurdish neighborhoods of Aleppo.

After holding off the regime, she and her brigade returned to their home base, the predominantly Kurdish northern city of the Afrin, turning their efforts to stopping the advance of Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

"I believe in a greater cause, which is protecting our families and our cities from the extremists' brutality and dark ideas," she says. "I read Nietzsche and Marx, which they don't accept. They don't accept having women in leadership positions. They want us to cover ourselves and become housewives to attend to their needs only. They think we have no right to talk and control our lives."

Kurdish women, regarded as some of the most liberal in the region, have a decades-long history of fighting. Many have fought with the PKK, an internationally recognized terror organization that works with the YPG, in southern Turkey.

http://www.syriadeeply.org/articles/2014/08/5923/isis-advances-kurdish-female-fighters-stand/

to randysf:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5360988

From that thread:

Awesome free will freedom fighters. Goddamn. They will be treated worse than men if ISIS wins.



to ancianita:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025360988#post3

There are more but I'm bit blown away by all of this. I almost feel militaristic, or something. I don't that.