70 IS militants killed in US-led airstrikes in Syria

[morningfog]

At least 70 Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist militants were killed and 300 more were wounded in airstrikes on Syrian territory launched by warplanes of the US-led international coalition Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

SOHR indicated that the militants were killed in bomb attacks that targeted their positions in the northern Syrian provinces of Raqaa, Deir al-Zur and al-Hasakah.

The London-based NGO expected the number of victims to increase as more than 100 jihadis were evacuated to Iraq where they are said to be in serious condition.

http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/70-is-militants-killed-in-us-led-airstrikes-in-syria_1474863.html

[riversedge]

1. why would the wounded be evacuated to Iraq?

I am confused.

[morningfog]

2. Settle in, there will be no end to the confusion in this war.

I don't have an answer.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Hopefully because Turkey closed its border, finally? I don't know--maybe nearest

big-city hospital is in someplace like Mosul, which is ISIS-held. I'd have to look at a map.

[flamingdem]

4. I think the Turkish border hospitals are overwhelmed PLUS

full of apostates like Kurds. Can you imagine the mess that would cause or does Isis drop it's criteria when wounded?

Assuming those would be military prison type hospitals. They are POWs.

[liberal_at_heart]

5. Yay, we killed a few bad guys. Now IS gets to use it to recruit a few hundred more.

[GGJohn]

6. A bit more than a few.

With the Arab nations involved in the strikes, recruitment may drop, we shall see.

[Scootaloo]

8. That's cute

Tell me, GGJohn, is this your first middle east rodeo? All you can do is try to hang on, that sucker's gonna buck you wherever the hell it wants to go and you can't do nothin' about it. Even if you "win," you're gonna feel it for a few days.

[GGJohn]

14. I'm what's known as an eternal optimist.

And no, this isn't my first rodeo.

[gordianot]

7. We broke it just 29,930 to go. Never ending oil wars. Wonder what monstrosity comes next?

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Body counts are how we won the Vietnamese War

http://www.salon.com/2005/06/11/body_counts/

[Adsos Letter]

11. ^This^

That was my first thought as well. Read the headline, scratched my 59 year old head, and thought "Now where have I heard this sort of thing before? Oh, yeah... ."

[HereSince1628]

12. In war lacking geographic objectives...you still need a metric of success

to sell to the folks at home...enemy killed provide that and can easily be inflated.

At the same time those guesses at terrorists killed provide a means of calculating cost-per-kill for the air strikes. It won't take a very clever reporter to do some arithmetic to show air strikes look ridiculously expensive in terms of enemy killed.

[Maedhros]

10. Militants = males of age 15 or more.

Indiscriminate killing, made to seem legitimate with Orwellian phrasing.

[Sparhawk60]

13. I Know I am Beating the Same Drum

I know I keep beating the same drum. However; I would really like us to try NOT killing their women and children for a while and see if that doesn't ese some of their hatred.

How many school lunches or beds in a homeless shelter could an air strike pay for? Let's try spending the bomb money on improving stuff here in America for a while, we can always go back to killing their women and children once every thing here at home is fixed.