Turning around??? I hope they are turning them inside out with 20mm cannons. Otherwise, these pathological jihadists will just be back in our face at some later date. We will have to deal with them eventually, why not now?
I was wondering why we are not securing this point of entry. It occurrs to me that there may be a few plausible reasons.
1. Give Syria enough rope and they will invite us to take them on next. Rumsfeld has already warned them in no uncertain terms.
2. Why not let the jihadists come on over to Iraq ? We might as well take as many out as we can while we are there with the equipment.
3. If Iraqi leadership escapes into Syria and the Syrian Government harbors and protects them, guess what? We can justify attacking Syria for doing this.