I read and heard where Malaki asked early on for air strikes when AlQaida was marching down a single road from Mosul.
Have you read ISIS’ ‘ten commandments’? This group seems very contrived, engineered to me. zero won’t do anything until Baghdad either melts or fights back... which should commence today.
Ask yourself, would they have been marching down that single road, in a country where everybody remembers the "Highway of Death", if they had not been given assurances, from a VERY high level, that the US Air Force would sit this out?