Obama’s Iraq Plan Has a Killer Flaw—and Airstrikes Alone May Not Save It

Daily Overseas ^ | 08/08/2014 | Jacob Siegel

[Travis McGee]

[Pearls Before Swine]

The Peshmargas ARE standing up and fighting. They’re just running out of ammo

If true, in effect Obama has supplied ISIS through the supplies of the deserting Iraqi army while with-holding supplies from the Kurds in the name of keeping involvement low. Typical perverse behavior and outcome.

Also, the numbers of ISIS soldiers are quite low--I've heard 12,000. If so, there are plenty of Peshmerga if weaponry is equalized.

[SeekAndFind]

According to Wikipedia

The Peshmerga are 200,000 strong. 10 times the number of the ISIS fighters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshmerga

All they need is weaponry for support and they can fight their own battle.

They have a HUGE stake in this, more than any other.

[jyro]

Obama, everything he touches is FUBAR. by design

[castlebrew]

Maybe it's a job for the Envoy, ready to do some Jungle Work.

Or maybe some Lawyers, Guns and Money.

More likely it'll take Roland to get the job done...