I heard the Belgians are sending a fighting force...
Seems to me the US should be busy taking out every single piece of US hardware, equipment, weaponry, etc, that the Iraqi military left on the field when they broke and ran like the sorry cowards they are.
Not IS tanks...stolen USA tanks freely given to ISIS by the Iraq army...highly trained for years by the USA at a cost of billions. Training Muslims is only giving equipment and training skills to the enemy...the Muslim state. But we never learn...now we are going to train Syrians in Saudia Arabia. It makes me want to scream! WHEN ARE THE IDIOTS PRETENDING TO RUN THIS COUNTRY GOING TO USE HISTORICAL MISTAKES AS A GUIDE TO ENSURE A FUTURE? (Or maybe this is Obama’s Muslim method of arming them against us?) Only non-Muslims should ever be trained or given military equipment. In business it is called “lessons learned” ... These incompetents make the same mistakes over and over...making one wonder if it is a mistake at all...or Obama’s ultimate plan of bringing down the USA.
They have tanks. You know, this entire ISIS thing can’t happen without 100s of millions of dollars being injected from somewhere. The smart thing to do would be to trace the $ supply and deal with the financiers. But, that never occurs because the financiers also own Presidents and Prime Ministers. Thus the people of Earth are constantly bombarded with created threats to keep wars and inflation in place. Defeat Isis and they’ll just get another conflict going.
It’s funny that A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, just a month or two ago on the chopping block, are one of the primary aircraft being used in that theater, but are getting no press about it.
Importantly, a lot of the tanks on the ground are M-1 Abrams MBTs, so the US R&D types at DARPA are very interested in their battle damage from Warthogs.
Some wit observed: “Imagine shooting a grapefruit with a .30-06. An A-10 hitting a tank is nothing like that.”