Maybe instead of giving weapons and ammo and money to the Iraqi army so they can abandon it on the field to ISIS (now calling themselves the Islamic State), the US should be supplying the Kurds, who will actually fight.
Just a thought.
As for Iraq, the government policy of trying to fiscally strangle the Kurds is coming back to bite them,hard. If they’d let the Kurds sell some oil, the Kurds might be holding ground.
I’m sure the supply situation will change. Once it does, there’ll be a real test of the Kurds ability to defeat ISIS. They’ve taken two towns back with American air support, but they will have to do far more to defeat ISIS.
I suspect part of the problem here is that others who could help, like Iran, Syria, and Turkey are not doing so, since they all have Kurdish minorities and rather like the idea of Kurdistan being defeated and Kurds being slaughtered.
That’s a big mistake. The Islamic State is far more dangerous to them than the Kurds ever were.
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