I don't necessarily see this as bad news. It seems they're helping us out by getting the innocent civilians out of the blast zone. I hope any town that is "taken over" by jihadis will be promptly turned to glass.
Exactly. Me either. Consider that they obviously felt that the center of Iraq was no longer safe for them to take over, they are perched within "running distance" of the Syrian border.
I hope we do this right, that is, I hope we are willing to continue killing them EVEN AFTER THEY CROSS OVER INTO SYRIA.
Assad has done nothing we asked him to do, if we engage the Syrian army, then so be it. There must be consequences to Assad for not listening, and this is our opportunity.
Neither do I. In fact it shows that the locals have been helpful! They don't want locals around ratting them out. Now we know where they are and when we are ready, we can kill them.
The only bad part is paying the people off that owned the property/homes afterwards.
"I don't necessarily see this as bad news. It seems they're helping us out by getting the innocent civilians out of the blast zone. I hope any town that is "taken over" by jihadis will be promptly turned to glass."
I was thinking the same thing, don't have to be extra careful there, now do we?