I agree. I don't think its a good call to "pick a side" because then we become targets and combantants. I also think its important to continue the humanitarian aspect of the mission. But yeah, I'm all for letting them fight it out. We had a civil war. It was terrible, and by far the worst thing to ever happen to this country. But I'm gonna have to say we turned out all right in the end. They want to see civil war, they need to take a walk around Gettysburg.
The bad thing though (from another article I read) was that the casualties were listed as 25 soldiers, 10 civilians, and 5 "militiamen." I have no doubt these figures are inaccurate. Even so, if they are anywhere near correct, that means there's a 5:1 kill ration--in the jihadis' favor! If that's not wrong, I don't know what is.
It is good that they are standing up, but as of that article I read, they've made a truce which is very bad.