US secretary of state, John Kerry, suggests that protecting the beseiged Syrian town of Kobani is not a primary objective of US-coalition forces. ‘As horrific as it is to watch in real time what’s happening in Kobani … you have to step back and understand the strategic objective,’ he says at a news conference with the UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond
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Wow. This might go into the history of media, or at least in the history of John Kerry’s addresses, as one of the most … how should I say it politely … ‘non-issues’? How horrible it must be for the refugees from Kobani to listen to that!
Kerry: “We just want to drop a few bombs here and there so that we can say to the ‘people back home’ that we are doing something.”