With that in mind, should we just stick to arming the Kurds?
We should be arming the Kurds, and the Sunni tribal leaders. This whole problem with ISIS wouldn’t have happened if the Shiite Iraqi government hadn’t attacked the same Sunni tribal leaders that helped us win during the surge. So the Sunnis in the Iraqi military walked away rather than face ISIS. Those leaders recently came to Washington to beg for help in fighting ISIS because the Shiite defense minister won’t pass on any aid to them while they are being killed by ISIS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3257222/posts
We should also quit trying to support “good jihadis” against Bashir Assad, and cooperate with his government against ISIS. There just isn’t anyone better who realistically can replace him.
IMHO divide and conquer should be our basic strategy in dealing with the Islamic world. Britain used it to conquer half the world. But we have to realize we won’t be allying ourselves with a bunch of boy scouts. If we insist our allies live up to our notions of morality we will fail.