[Leaning Right]

It's one thing when ISIS inflicts a defeat on the demoralized Iraqi army. But now ISIS has evidently defeated the respected Kurdish peshmerga.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Dang

[piytar]

The peshmerga retreated without losses or a fight. Sounds more like a tactical move to me.

[livius]

Capture of the Mosul Dam after an offensive of barely 24 hours could give the Sunni militants the ability to flood major Iraqi cities or withhold water from farms,

Lovely. They've appealed to Bambi for help, but believe me, he has no intention of helping anybody against radical Islam.

[pallis]

Kurdish independence was a bright spot of this whole fiasco, and now Obama’s militant Islamists are taking that away. This is sad.

[Fungi]

Thanks feckless one on the hill.

[Organic Panic]

Who has time for this when there’s golf to play. Happy birthday Mr. and Mrs. Love. I mean President Obama.

[bert]

Or, the kurds ceded the river to Isil.

[ScottinVA]

If the peshmerga can’t defeat ISIS, the whole of northern Iraq is screwed.

[chessplayer]

Nobody can even slow IS down, much less defeat them.

[Will88]

Makes no sense. I’ve read that the Islamic State has only around 15,000 fighters, yet they’ve driven ten of thousands of Iraqi troops and now Kurds from their positions and just overrun the territory.

[trisham]

"We moved our base camp last night and we’re now positioned literally
within feet of the river. Have been sitting here watching the border
patrol patrolling in their riverboats all night and all morning..."

~Jim Robinson

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