Remember the Kurds in Iraq? Two weeks ago, this group of millions of people in the Northeast of Iraq was pleading with president Obama to send ammunition for the Kurdish forces that were facing the ISIS terrorist army. As usual, Obama did nothing. There was no US decision either way.
Today, the Washington Post reports that ISIS has captured two towns on the frontier between the Kurds and ISIS. In the first town of Sinjar, the Kurdish militia had to fall back due to shortages in ammunition. Sinjar was the home of a large number of Yazidis, a Moslem religious group that Sunni ISIS has labeled "devil worshippers". According to the WaPo, the ISIS fighters entering Sinjar gave the people who remained in the town a simple choice: "convert or die." It is hard to imagine that in today's world there are still battles where the losing side must change religion in order to survive, but with ISIS at least, that old paradigm still exists.
A second town, Wana, was also captured by ISIS from the Kurds. From Wana, the ISIS fighters are now within firing range of the large hydroelectric dam for Mosul. That dam is the largest in Iraq. By blowing it up, ISIS could probably cause flooding in Baghdad and much of the Shiite areas along the river. Wana was also abandoned because the Kurds did not have ammunition to fight off the ISIS advance.
Unlike the Iraqi army, the Kurdish fighters do not flee in fear from ISIS. The Kurds are prepared to confront the terrorists of ISIS and to defend their lands from being overrun. They have not asked for US forces to be sent to help them. All they requested was ammunition for weapons they already had.
And all that Obama did was sit silently. No response. We have Obama and John Kerry talking daily about the fighting in Gaza which is of little importance compared to the potential loss of the Kurdish area to ISIS. If Obama gave the order, America could restock the Kurdish ammunition supplies in just a few days.
Unbelievable!
Today, the Washington Post reports that ISIS has captured two towns on the frontier between the Kurds and ISIS. In the first town of Sinjar, the Kurdish militia had to fall back due to shortages in ammunition. Sinjar was the home of a large number of Yazidis, a Moslem religious group that Sunni ISIS has labeled "devil worshippers". According to the WaPo, the ISIS fighters entering Sinjar gave the people who remained in the town a simple choice: "convert or die." It is hard to imagine that in today's world there are still battles where the losing side must change religion in order to survive, but with ISIS at least, that old paradigm still exists.
A second town, Wana, was also captured by ISIS from the Kurds. From Wana, the ISIS fighters are now within firing range of the large hydroelectric dam for Mosul. That dam is the largest in Iraq. By blowing it up, ISIS could probably cause flooding in Baghdad and much of the Shiite areas along the river. Wana was also abandoned because the Kurds did not have ammunition to fight off the ISIS advance.
Unlike the Iraqi army, the Kurdish fighters do not flee in fear from ISIS. The Kurds are prepared to confront the terrorists of ISIS and to defend their lands from being overrun. They have not asked for US forces to be sent to help them. All they requested was ammunition for weapons they already had.
And all that Obama did was sit silently. No response. We have Obama and John Kerry talking daily about the fighting in Gaza which is of little importance compared to the potential loss of the Kurdish area to ISIS. If Obama gave the order, America could restock the Kurdish ammunition supplies in just a few days.
Unbelievable!
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