Abandoned cars on the road to Irbil that ran out of gas trying to escape the ISIS advance
Some random bits on ISIS and Iraq:
- Stupidity persists. The White House spokesman is repeatedly saying, "There are no military solutions to the problems of Iraq." The implication is that there are political solutions. That's clearly wrong. ISIS will keep expanding until it is stopped on the ground. Military solutions are the only solutions right now.
- ISIS not only has oil now, it has electricity. It just took Iraq's biggest hydroelectric dam (Haditha). Control over energy provides a minimal legitimacy to ISIS. It would be smart to shut them down.
- ISIS is now minutes from Irbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish zone in Iraq. Unfortunately for the secular Kurds, they won't be able to mount much of a defense. They don't the weapons to do it due to embargoes from the Turks and Iraqis. Arm them.
- More @ Global Guerrillas
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