Kurds, Outgunned By Fanatical ISIS, Hope Looming Baghdad Battle Buys Time For Weapons Upgrade -- FOX News
The bloody carnage wrought by Al Qaeda-aligned militants in their quest to establish a caliphate that spans portions of Iraq and Syria has left Kurds disgusted and ready to defend to the death their northern lands — even with outdated, often unreliable weapons.
Although the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — a marauding army of Sunni Muslim jihadists — has turned south toward Baghdad, Kurds in the semi-autonomous oil-rich northeast expect that they may have to face their fellow Sunnis, who left a trail of death and destruction in overrunning the Iraqi army in taking the cities of Tikrit and Mosul.
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My Comment: The Iraqi army in Mosul had the weapons but not the will to confront and fight ISIS .... the Kurds have the will but not the weapons to confront and fight ISIS .... and ISIS .... they have the will and the weapons to fight. Confronting such a situation .... the Kurds are justified to be worried.
I don't think ISIS wants to take on the Kurds, nor in a strictly strategic sense should they. The focus for their fight is south to the gulf and beyond. They would have little to gain and much to lose to go after the Kurds. There might be the occasional shoot out, but anything more I doubt it, at least for the long term.
ReplyDeleteMake that the medium term.
ReplyDeleteI concur James.
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