Looks like Obama has put the kabosh on helping the Kurds except for maybe a photo-op or two. This clown needs to be impeached.
I am thinking a modified and modernized P-38 Lightning equipped with a STOL configuration, smaller more powerful tuboprop engines, dual counter rotating propellers, and modern avionics would be just the ticket for a ground attack aircraft. Cheap to build and easier to maintain than modern jets.
Mount it with twin, M242 Bushmaster chain gun as it’s main armament, add a M134 minigun as a secondary weapon and lots of ammo for both.
Put about 4 dozen of these aircraft in the hands of the Kurds, train their pilots, maintenance crews and their forward air controllers and I will bet that they would be devastating against the ISIS troops.