"The only way you can destroy the caliphate (Daesh) is with a ground component," said Graham who is seeking his party's presidential nomination. "The aerial campaign is not turning the tide of battle," Reuters reported.McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, recently proposed intervention in Syria by a European and Arab ground force backed by 10,000 US military advisers and trainers. On Sunday, both senators told reporters during a visit to Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, that US personnel could provide logistical and intelligence support to a proposed 100,000-strong force from countries like Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
"All sales of the package tours to Turkey are stopped effective immideately. The charter flights to Turkey banned, except those used to retrive Russian tourists from there," Igor Suvalov said.Russian sanctions against Turkey will not affect contracts signed before December 31, 2015 and industrial products, the Deputy PM noted.
"Additional control will be provided on regular flights between the two countries to ensure the necessary security measures," he added.
"Those [construction] contracts that are currently under operation and contracts that are signed before December 31 of this year, Turkish nationals may continue their labor activities on these construction projects. For new contracts [signed after January 1, 2016], there won't be such freedom and a special permit will need to be applied for from the government," Shuvalov told Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during a Cabinet meeting.
"We are not excluding the possibility of using Turkish nationals on construction projects that are underway in the Russian Federation, but this will fall under very serious control," Shuvalov added.
The young people who see this film must recognize that for the future 'blind faith in their leaders,' as Bruce Springsteen said, 'will get you dead.'Hollywood actor, Donald Sutherland just dropped a bombshell on the military industrial complex. Sutherland, who plays President Coriolanus Snow in the blockbuster movie series Hunger Games, was recently asked what the movie was really about - he held no punches in his answer.
If there's any question as to what it's an allegory for I will tell you.
It is the powers that be in the United States of America.
It's profiteers.
War is for profit. It's not "to save the world for democracy" or "for king and country."
No, bullshit.
It's for the profit of the top 10%, and the young people who see this film must recognize that, for the future, 'blind faith in your leaders,' as Bruce Springsteen said, 'will get you dead'.
Comment: Given Erdogan's naked belligerence - on top of Turkey's naked aggression - what in heavens would he have to say to Putin that is constructive or worth listening to??