[EQAndyBuzz]

How is it possible that 50,000 JV terrorists can hold over 200,000 square miles of land stretching over two countries?

We should be able to drop enough forces into Iraq under the radar and decimate them. Position forces, open up a corridor for the enemy to escape and at the end of the corridor are a couple of hungry spooky’s.

[bert]

implicit in the article is the thought that there is a desire to restore Iraq, and by extension Syria, to the old borders.

There is no such desire. Iraq was

the current efforts are to gain control of the new borders and insure certain populated centers are not under ISIL control

the current effort is mostly about securing the new kurdish national borders

[maddog55]

I personally think the smallest weapon we should be using are tactical nukes.

[spokeshave]

How is it possible that 50,000 JV terrorists can hold over 200,000 square miles of land stretching over two countries?

Just send in the Warthogs to clean them out.